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institutions of knowledge, national science, international science, media of knowledge, general history of science, theory and philosophy of science, science and literature, early modern and earlier, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, modern, postmodern, scientific (auto) biographies, company histories, alchemy, biology, chemistry, colonial science, communication & transport, gender & science, iron & coal, mathematics, medicine, brain science, odd science, physics, space & astronomy, science, technology & society, science and politics, science for children, science and religion, scientific instruments, natural history,
institutions of knowledge
1 Vincent, Eric; Hinton, Percival: The University of Birmingham. Its History and Significance. Birmingham: Cornish 1947. vi 239p 25cm clothbacked boards, label, dj (worn), many plates, index, folding map, frontisp, VG very nice, front endpaper removed £ 18.-
2 [Birmingham] Introduction to a University. Birmingham Univ 1951. 47p iv 19cm cloth (transp film), plates, VG ex lib £ 4.-
3 [Brussels] Vanderkindere, L: 1834 - 1884. L'Université de Bruxelles. Notice Historique. Bruxelles: Weissenbruch 1884. 216p clxxii 27cm leather spine minor wear, VG+ ex lib copy, much prosopographical material £ 22.-
4 Buchanan, James, et al: Academia in Anarchy. An Economic Diagnosis. Stacey 1971. xi 187p 22cm card cover (bent), index, still useful. Faculties: Producers who do not sell £ 8.-
5 Calhoun, Daniel: The American Civil Engineer. Origins and Conflict. MIT 1960. xii 295pcloth, dj, map, tables, bibliogr, notes, index, creating an engineer supply, 1816- 1840. VG+ fresh £ 15.-
6 Cambridge Commemorated. An Anthology of University Life. Ed. L & H Fowler. CUP 1984. xiii 385p cloth, dj, many plates, index, coffee soiling on a few pages, leading to sl loss of text £ 12.-
7 Cambridge, King's College: A Register of Admissions, 1919 - 1958. Ed. R Bulmer, L P Wilkinson. KCA 1963. vi 462p cloth sl sunned, together with: A Register of Admissions, 1945 - 1970. Ed. R Bulmer, L P Wilkinson. KCA 1974. vi 387p cloth, indices, £ 20.-
8 Cambridge, King's College: Wilkinson, L P: A Century of King's, 1873 - 1972. King's 1980. xiv 182p 23cm hb, index, tables, appendix, glossary, a statistical analysis, VG+ £ 12.-
9 Cambridge, Rose, Jasper; Ziman, John: Camford Observed. An Investigation of the Ancient English Universities in the Modern World. Gollancz 1964. 255p hb, dj, index, VG+ £ 12.-
10 Cambridge Trevelyan, G: Trinity College. An Historical Sketch. CUP 1946. 120p cloth, illus, VG £ 4.-
11 Cardwell, D S L: The Organisation of Science in England. Heinemann 1972. (rev ed) xii 268p 22cm, card cover, index, tables, notes, VG+ covers 18th to 20th cent £ 12.-
12 The Status of Civil Science in Eastern Europe. Ed. C Sinclair. Kluwer 1989. xxviii 363p hb, VG+ £ 15.-
13 Cornford, F M: Microcosmographia Academica, Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician. Reprint of 1922 ed, card cover (sl soiled) 48p £ 10.-
14 Dent, H C: Universities in Transition. Cohen & West 1961. 174p 19cm hb, dj, VG £ 5.-
15 Doeberl, Michael: Das Akademische Deutschland. Vol 1 (only): Dt Hochschulen in ihrer Geschichte. Berlin: Weller, 1930. 720p, 33cm, cloth, 617 illus, folding maps, ex lib, spine damaged, many portraits & illustrations of university buildings £ 40.-
16 [Edinburgh] Grant, Alexander: The Story of the University of Edinburgh. Longmans 1884. 2 Vols xxiii 384p xii 510p 24cm cloth, plates, index, appendices, VG+, strong ex lib copy £ 48.-
17 The University of Edinburgh and Poland. An Hist Review. Ed. Wiktor Tomaszewski. Edinburgh: priv publ, 1968. ix 96p + 64 full page plates, 24cm illus cloth, appendix, signed, VG+ £ 12.-
18 The Flow into Employment of Scientists, Engineers etc. Report of Working Group for Scientific Growth. Chair Michael Swann. HMSO 1968. viii 186p 24cm card cover, tables, VG+ £ 10.-
19 Foster, W D: Pathology as a Profession in Great Britain and the Early History of the Royal College of Pathologists. RCP 1982. 159p card cover, VG+ £ 12.-
20 Friedberg, Erhard; Musselin, Christine: Enquète d'Universitées. Etude compare des universitées en France et en RFA. Paris: Harmattan 1989. 219p 22cm, pb, bibliogr, VG+ £ 10.-
21 Gennep, Arnold van: The Semi-Scholars (1911). transl & ed Rodney Needham. Routledge 1967. xxiii 71p 22cm cloth, dj, frontsip, as new, science satire by a hermit anthropologist £ 10.-
22 The Forge. The History of Goldsmiths' College, 1905 - 1955. Ed. Dorothy Dymond. Methuen 1955. xiv 156p cloth, dj, appendix, plates, VG+, emphasis on teacher training £ 12.-
23 Grant, Gerald; Riesman, David: The Perpetual Dream. Reform & Experiment in the American College. Chicago UP 1978. 474p 24cm cloth, dj, hardly used ex lib copy £ 10.-
24 Histoire Mondiale de l'Education. Ed. Gaston Mialaret, J Vial. Paris: PUF 1981. 4 Vols, 500p each, 25cm cloth, dj, tables, indices, VG+ set with library stamp but without traces of use £ 60.-
25 Hohendahl, Peter: Institution of Criticism. Cornell UP 1992. hb, dj, index, VG+ £ 12.-
26 Hufbauer, Karl: The Formation of the German Chemical Community, 1720 - 1795. California UP 1982. viii 312p card cover, indices, Crell's subscribers, 80p small print bibliographical profiles, institutional histories, plates, as new £ 18.-
27 Jenkins, E W: From Armstrong to Nuffield. Studies in Twentieth-Century Science Education in England and Wales. Murray 1979. vii 318p 23cm card cover, illus, tables, index, VG+ £ 10.-
28 Kahler, Erich von: Der Beruf der Wissenschaft. Berlin: Bondi 1920. 101p hb, VG+ £ 12.-
29 [London] Dunsheath, Percy; Miller, Margaret: Convocation in the University of London. The First 100 Years. Athlone 1958. 204p 20cm cloth dj, plates, index, as new £ 8.-
30 Marrou, H I: A History of Education in Antiquity. Transl G Lamb. Sheed & Ward 1956. 466p cloth, index, 100p appendix, map, VG ex lib copy, a standard work £ 24.-
31 [Mexico] Primer Censo Nacional Universitario 1949. Universidad Nacional Autonoma. Mexico 1953. civ 515p 25cm card cover dusty, any tables, plates, VG £ 15.-
32 Newman, John Henry: The Idea of a University, defined and illustrated. Longmans 1891. xxii 527p 19cm cloth (minor wear), index, some neat annotations in pencil £ 12.-
33 Newman, John Henry: The Idea of a University, defined and illustrated. Ed. C Harrold. Longmans 1947. xxxviii 413p cloth, index, bibliogr £ 15.-
34 [Nuffield] Clark, Ronald: A Biography of the Nuffield Foundation. Longman 1972. viii 224p 23cm cloth, dj, index, since 1940ies, major medical research player £ 10.-
35 Olmedo, Felix: Diego Ramírez Villaescusa (1459 - 1537) Fundador del Colegio de Cienca y Autor de los Cuatro Dialogos sobre la muerte del Principe Don Juan. Madrid: Ed Nacional 1944. 335p 24cm attractive half leather binding, indices, appendix, VG+ £ 15.-
36 The Open University Opens. Ed. J Tunstall. Routledge 1974. xx 191p card cover, index, VG £ 8.-
37 The Organization of Research Establishments. Ed. Sir John Cockcroft. CUP 1965. 275p 23cm cloth, dj (sl short), index, plates, very clean ex lib, covers Harwell, NPL, Babraham, Glaxco, Bell, Rutherford, CERN, etc £ 12.-
38 Ortega y Gasset, Jose: Mission of the University. Routledge 1952. 81p 23cm cloth, dj, VG+ £ 10.-
39 [Paris] Goulet, Robert: Compendium on the Magnificence ... Compendium recenter editum de multiplici Parisiis Universitatis Magnificientia (1517) transl R B Burke. OUP 1928. 115p 22cm half cloth, numbered copy printed on rag paper, very nice reprint, ex lib £ 16.-
40 Parsons, G H: History of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1847 - 1947. ix 299p 24cm, cloth, lists, indices, many illus & plates, VG+ £ 14.-
41 Pattison, Iain: The British Veterinary Profession 1791 - 1948. Allen 1983. x 237p 23cm hb, illus, index, bib, VG+ £ 10.-
42 Payne, George Louis: Britain's Scientific and Technological Manpower. Stanford UP 1960. xiii 466p 24cm cloth dj, index, tables, VG+. Schools, universities, the expansion of education £ 14.-
43 History of the Internat Congresses of Physiological Sciences, 1889 - 1968. Ed. W Fenn. (220)p cloth, plates, VG+. Incl essay about the Minnelahda Voyage: 600 European physiologists charter a boat to travel to the 1929 Boston Congress, and have a great time on board £ 10.-
44 Rashdall, Hastings: The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. OUP 1895, 2 vols in 3, xxvi 562p 832p 24cm cloth, plates, maps, indices, VG+. Salerno Bologna Paris Italy Spain Germany Scotland Cambridge Oxford, Student Life. A nice set £ 64.-
45 [Rockefeller Foundation] Shaplen, Robert: Towards the Well-Being of Mankind. Fifty Years of the Rockefeller Foundation. Doubleday 1964. 214p 31cm cloth, many photogr, index, appendix, library stamps, VG £ 15.-
46 [Rockefeller] Fosdick, Raymond: The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation. Odham 1952. 352p cloth, dj, index, notes, appendix, VG+ £ 14.-
47 Solla Price, Derek de: Little Science, Big Science. Columbia UP 1963. 119p cloth, dj, index, 1st ed, VG+ £ 14.-
48 The University of Southampton. Centenary History of its Evolution & Development, 1862 - 1962, by A Temple Patterson. Souhampton UP 1962. 245p 22cm cloth, dj, index, plates, VG+ £ 13.-
49 Sparn, Enrique: 3 statistical publications from the Argentine Acad of Sci: 1) Las Universidades con màs de 4000 Estudiantes. Contrib a la historia de a cultura espiritual del siglo XX. Cordoba 1925. 25p; 2) Las Sociedades Cientifícas, Literarias y Téchnicas del Mundo con màs de 1000 Miembros. Contrib a la Sociedadología. Cordoba 1931. 76p; 3) El Crecimiento de las Grandes Bibliotecas de la Tierra durante el primer cuarto del siglo XX. Cordoba 1926. 46p, card covers, sl dusty, tables and illus, lib stamp £ 16.-
50 Stichweh, Rudolf: Wissenschaft, Universität, Profession. Soziologische Analysen. Suhrkamp 1994. 402p pb, as new £ 10.-
51 [Toulouse] Taillefer, Michel: Une Académie interprète des Lumières. L'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse au xviii siècle. Paris: CNRS 1984. 323p 24cm card cover, index, bibliogr, tables, appendix: members £ 14.-
52 Tschirch, A: Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pharmaceutischen Universitätsinstitute. Wien 1893, offprint. 14p + 2 full page photogr plates (Mikroskopiersaal, Pharmakogn Sammlung), 25cm, author inscription, VG £ 12.-
53 Vanderbilt University. Announcement. First Session 1875 - 76. Nashville, Tenn 1875. 48p, old library stamp on title, frontisp (building), the original prospectus describing purpose and planned work at this University, new wrappers £ 28.-
54 Venn, John: Early Collegiate Life. Cambridge: Heffer, 1913. 286p 19cm cloth, index, VG+ £ 15.-
55 [Wellcome] Hall, A Rupert; Bembridge, A: Physics & Philantropy. A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936 - 1989. CUP 1986. xii 479p 23cm cloth, dj, index, many plates, appendices, VG+ £ 20.-
national sciences
56 Heilbron, J L: Dilemmas of an Upright Man. Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science. California UP 1986. xiii 238p card cover, index, bibliogr, plates, as new, 2nd ed £ 14.-
57 The Humanities and the Sciences in Denmark during the Second World War. Kopenhagen: Munskgaard 1948. 723p 27cm cloth, index, cloth, ex lib, VG+. A national prospectus, to mark the end an enforced period of isolation £ 15.-
58 The Brain Drain. Report of the Working Group on Migration (Committee: Manpower Resources for Science and Technology). HMSO 1967. 125p paper cover, tables, data, VG £ 10.-
59 Guide To World Science: Vol 2: France. Ed. Judith Allen. Hodgson 1975. 238p 24cm cloth, index, directory, introduction, tables, VG £ 10.-
60 Iran. Comptes-Rendus 1934 - 1950. 60p, a review of science in Iran: international correspondence, research projects, plates, inscription, paper cover dusty £ 5.-
61 Revue des Travaux Scientifiques Tchécoslovaques. Section 1: Philosophie, Philologie, Histoire, Sciences Sociales etc, 1919. 304p paper cover, index, a national prospectus £ 5.-
international sciences
62 [Metrics] Guillaume, Ch-Ed: Le Convention du Mètre et le Bureau International des Poids et Mesures. Paris; Gauthier-Villars 1902. vii 238p 28cm 88plates, appendix, but disbound (very) £ 14.-
63 Lutostanski, Karol: Rôle des Commmissions Nationales comme Facteurs de la vie intellectuelle Nationale. Varsovie 1937. 10p £ 3.-
64 Tello, W: L'Esprit Universitaire Mondial. Buenos Aires 1910. 26p paper stapled, signed, dusty, VG £ 6.-
65 1935: Bulletin Officiel de l'Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, No 36. approx 45p 25cm card cover, advertisments, emphasis on Sweden £ 4.-
66 Université Internationale. Documents relatifs à sa constitution. Rapport, Conférence, Status, Session Inaugurale. Brussels 1920. 146p 23cm paper cover detached, disbound, fragile £ 12.-
67 Société des Nations. Recueil des Accords Intellectuels. Paris: Inst Coop Intellectuelle 1938. vi 231p card cover, sl dusty £ 12.-
68 Institut International de Co-opération Intellectuelle: Les Déterminations Physico-Chimiques des Poids Moléculaires et Atomiques des Gaz. H Abraham, E Moles, etc. Paris: Institut International 1938. xiii 192p 24cm card cover, plates, illus, index, library stamp, VG+ £ 15.-
the media of knowledge:
69 Annotations and its Texts. Ed. Stephen Barney. OUP 1991. cloth, index, as new, essays by Derrida, McFarland et al, on footnotes and similar paratexts £ 10.-
70 Brodetsky, S: A First Course in Nomography. Bell 1925. x 160p cloth sl worn, few pencil notes £ 8.-
71 Cahn, M: Der Druck des Wissens. Geschichte & Medium der wissenschaftl Publikation. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1991. 76p 24cm, card cover, mint, presentation copy from author, editor & bookseller, with related offprint £ 8.-
72 Day, Robert: How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. CUP 1989. xi 211p 23cm card cover, transp film, ex lib, VG+ £ 6.-
73 Dick, Thomas: On the Improvement of Society by the Diffusion of Knowledge or: An Illustration of the Advantages which would Result from a more General Dissemination of Rational and Scientific Information among all Ranks. Philadelphia: Key & Biddle 1833. 386p 19cm 1/4 leather, text with minor spotting, illus, VG £ 32.-
74 Dillon, George: Contending Rhetorics. Writing in Academic Disciplines. Bloomington, Indiana UP 1991. 175p 24cm cloth, dj, pencil erased, VG £ 10.-
75 Grogan, Denis: Science and Technology. An Introduction to the Literature. 4th Ed Bingley 1982. 400p 23cm hb, dj, lib stamp, VG, discursive handbook on science information sources £ 10.-
76 Hawkidge, David: New Information Technology in Education. Croom Helm 1983. 238p 20cm hb, index, bibliogr, VG ex lib £ 8.-
77 Katz, Michael: Elements of the Scientific Paper. Yale UP 1985. xii, 130p, VG+: how science is bred out of words. £ 6.-
78 Phillips, V J: Waveforms. A History of Early Oscillography. Bristol: Hilger 1987. x 259p 24cm hb, dj, index, many illus throughout, new, the mechanical basis of scientific inscriptions £ 18.-
79 Powell, Walter: Getting into Print. The Decision Making Process in Scholarly Publishing. Chicago UP 1985. xxxi 260p 23cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, as new. Publish or Perish, reconstructing the laws of science as printed matter, case studies £ 10.-
80 Richmond, W Kenneth: The Concept of Educational Technology. A Dialogue with Yourself. weidenf 1970. 254p hb, dj, ex lib, indices, VG. programmed text, MacLuhan, sourcebook £ 12.-
81 Schilina, Ludmilla: Vergleich von Ludwigs Kymographen mit Hürtles Tonographen. Disseration, Medizinische Fakultät Bern. Praes. Prof H Kronecker. München: Oldenbourg 1899. 56p 23cm illus, dedicated to Marey, VG, together with H. Kronecker, [Bericht über Schilina] Verhandlungen der Physiologischen Gesellschaft Berlin, 1898 [5]p, author inscription, corrections, methode graphique £ 22.-
82 Scientific Information Transfer. The Editor's Role. Ed. Miriam Balaban. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978. xvii 686p 24cm, cloth, dj, VG £ 14.-
83 Turabian, K: A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations. 3rd Ed. Chicago UP 1972. vi 164p card cover ex lib. How to write science: 1 million copies sold £ 5.-
84 Unisist. Synopsis of the Feasibility Study on a World Science Information System. Paris: UNESCO 1971. 92p card cover, VG £ 5.-
85 Wells, H G: World Brain. Methuen 1938. xvi 130p hb, VG 1st ed, essays about Permanent World Encyclopaedia etc £ 12.-
86 Wright, G G Neill: The Writing of Arabic Numerals. Univ of London Pr 1952. xxii 424p 22cm cloth, sl worn, endpapers crudely repaired, still very good £ 20.-
general:
87 A Thousand Notable Things, Embracing a Collection of Scarce, Curious, & Valuable Receipts, adapted for Domestic Purposes, also an Elegant Selection of Humourus and Instructive Anecdotes, Essays, Tales, Historical Facts, etc, with: The Century of Inventions by the Marquis of Worchester (1655) and a Discourse on the Emigration of British Birds. Manchester: Gleave 1826. 573p 22cm full calf rebacked, corners worn, signs of use, 5 engr plates (Sign language, baggage ass, pearl fishery etc), index of anecdotes, index of receipts, separate index to Worchester's most curious deeds, a wonderful omnibus of fact & fiction £ 46.-
88 Aykroyd, W R: Sweet Malefactor. Sugar, Slavery and Human Society. Heinemann 1967. 160p 21cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, 18pl, VG ex lib copy £ 12.-
89 Butterfield, Herbert: The Origins of Modern Science, 1300 - 1800. Bell 1949. x 217p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 14.-
90 Encyclopaedia of Ignorance. Vol 1: Physical Sciences; Vol 2: Life Sciences and Earth Sciences. Ed. Ronald Duncan & M Weston-Smith. NY: Pergamon 1977. vii 433p xiii card cover, indices, VG+. Edited by R Duncan the Poet, the essays by eminent scientists address the ocean of ignorance, the ever changing limits of knowledge £ 16.-
91 Endeavour. A Review of the Progress of the Sciences in the Service of Mankind. Vol 17, 1958 - Vol 5 New Series, 1981 (24 volumes). Published by ICI, 2nd series by Pergamon Press, Ed. Trevor Williams, approx 200p per vol, 30cm, library binding, many plates, also in colour, comparable to the Scientific American, every vol includes historical essays, but also important contributions by eminent scientists on the day £ 70.-
92 Baker, J N L: The History of Geography. Blackwell 1963. xxviii 266p cloth, dj, index, as new £ 15.-
93 Friedman, Robert: Appropriating the Weather. Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology. Cornell UP 1989. 251p cloth, dj, index, illus, as new £ 13.-
94 Fuller, Steve: Science. Open Univ Press 1997. (Concepts in the Social Sciences) viii 159p pb, index, bibliogr VG+ £ 10.-
95 George, William: The Scientist in Action. SBC 1938. 355p 22cm hb (sl soiled) index £ 10.-
96 Gregory, R L: The Intelligent Eye. Weidenfeld 1977. 142p card cover, illus, stereo illus, VG £ 10.-
97 Guide to an Exhibition Illustrating the Early History of Palaeontology. Ed. W K Lang. British Museem 1931. 68p plates, index, illus, card cover, VG+ £ 10.-
98 Haldane, J B S: Possible Worlds. Evergreen 1940. 286p early paperback, dj, yellowed £ 8.-
99 Harmann, John: A Suspiciously Simple History of Science and Invention without the Boring Bits. Piccadilly 1991. 195p 23cm hb, illus, deborified to excess £ 6.-
100 History of Scientific Ideas. A Teacher's Guide. Ed. David Steele etc. Hutchinson 1970. 279p 22cm cloth, dj, ex lib, covers Cosmology to Newton, What is Matter, Biology (Harvey, Cytology, Genetics Evolution) etc, useful £ 12.-
101 Jeans, James: Science and Music. CUP 1938. x 258p cloth, plates, index, bibliogr, VG £ 10.-
102 Kaempfert, Waldemar: Explorations in Science. SBC 1953. 288p hb, sl soiled £ 8.-
103 King, Henry: The History of the Telescope. Dover 1979. (1955) 456p card, index, 196 illus, VG+ £ 18.-
104 Klotz, Irving: Diamond Dealers & Feather Merchants. Tales from the Sciences. Birkhäuser 1986. 120p 23cm cloth, dj, plates, VG+: A gallery of wrong science and human scientists £ 10.-
105 Lloyd, G E R: Adversaries and Authorities. Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. CUP 1996. xvii 250p card cover, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 12.-
106 Mason, Stephen: A History of Sciences. NY: Collier 1968. 638p 18cm pb, index, VG+, revised version of Main Currents (1956) £ 12.-
107 Mendelssohn, Kurt: Science and Western Domination. RU 1977. 224p 20cm hb, dj, plates, index, sl yellowed, VG £ 12.-
108 Symmetries In Science. Ed. Bruno Gruber, Richard Millman. NY: Plenum 1980. ix 495p 24cm hb, dj, index, VG+ £ 15.-
109 Taylor, Sherwood: A Short History of Science. SBC 1940. xiv 320p cloth, pl, illus, index, VG £ 10.-
theory and philosophy of science:
110 [Bachelard] Mansuy, Michel: Gaston Bachelard et les Éléments. Paris: Corti 1967. 380p 24cm, pb, untouched but ex lib £ 12.-
111 Bernal, J D: The Freedom of Necessity. Routledge 1949. xi 437p cloth, index, a marvelous fresh copy of the first edition £ 22.-
112 Bernal, J D: The Social Function of Science. Routledge 1944. xvi 482p cloth index, appendix, folding charts, tables, VG+ £ 22.-
113 Bernal J D: Science in History. Penguin 1969. (1954) 4 Vol set, boxed: The Emergence of Science; The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions; The Natural Sciences in our Time; The Social Sciences, together 1400p, bibliogr & indices, many illus, a very nice set £ 36.-
114 [Bernal] The Science of Science. Society in a Technological Age. Ed. Maurice Goldsmith. Souvenir 1964. 235p hb, dj, index, VG+. Collection of essays (Bernal, Blackett, Haldane, Needham, Solla Price, Snow etc) on Bernal's Social Function of Science, its impact and importance £ 22.-
115 [Bertalanffy] Unity through Diversity. A Festschrift for Ludwig van Bertalanffy. Ed. William Gray. NY: Gordon & Breach 1973. Vol 2 only. [550]p hb, dj, VG+, contributions on Growth & Malignant Growth; Systems Theory in Behavioral Sciences £ 10.-
116 Bragg, William: Concerning the Nature of Things. NY: Dover 1974 (1925). xi 232p 22cm card cover, many illus, clean ex lib £ 6.-
117 Brannigan, Aug: The Social Basis of Scientific Discoveries. CUP 1981. 212p cloth, dj, index, VG+ £ 15.-
118 Brenner, Reuven: Rivalry in Business, Science, among Nations. CUP 1987. xi 244p 24cm, cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+. Competition, the leapfrogging game £ 14.-
119 Bronowski, J: The Common Sense of Science. Heinemann 1951. 154p 18cm cloth, dj, index, VG £ 6.-
120 Collins, Harry; Pinch, Trevor: The Golem. What Everyone Should Know About Science. CUP 1993. 164p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, as new £ 14.-
121 Construction and Constraint. The Shaping of Scientific Rationality. Ed. Ernan McMullin. Notre Dame UP 1988. xii 251p 22cm cloth, index, as new, essays by Rorty, McCarthy (Strong Program), Hesse (Social Epistemology), Gutting (Foucault), etc £ 12.-
122 [Descartes] Garber, Daniel: Descartes' Metaphysical Physics. Chicago UP 1992. xiv 389p 23cm card cover, notes, bibliogr, index, new £ 12.-
123 Dolby, R G A: Uncertain Knowledge. An Image of Science for a Changing World. CUP 1996. x 365p 24cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, new, many references to marginal and disputed sciences £ 18.-
124 Foucault, An Introduction, by Hinrich Fink-Eitel. Philadelphia: Pennbridge 1992. 102p card cover, notes, chronology, as new £ 6.-
125 Haldane, J B S: Science and Everyday Life. Penguin 1941. 192p pb, fresh copy £ 8.-
126 Haldane, J B S: The Inequality of Man, and other Essays. Chatto & Windus 1932. vii 295p cloth (sl wear, spine sunned) 1st ed £ 15.-
127 Hennis, Wilhelm: Max Webers Wissenschaft vom Menschen. Tübingen: Mohr 1996. vii 229p card cover, as new £ 10.-
128 Himsworth, Harold: The Development and Organisation of Scientific Knowledge. Heinemann 1970. vii 180p hb, dj, index, VG+ £ 12.-
129 Holton, Gerald: The Scientific Imagination. Case Studies. CUP 1978. xvi 382p 24cm cloth, dj, index, plates, on Millikan, Fermi, Einstein, etc VG+ £ 20.-
130 Huxley, Aldous: Science, Liberty and Peace. Chatto 1947. 63p cloth, VG+, 1st ed, important £ 14.-
131 Korn, James: Illusions of Reality. A History of Deception in Social Psychology. SUNY UP 1997. xii 204p card cover, index, bibliogr, new. Deceipt as a research method £ 10.-
132 MacMurray, John: The Boundaries of Science. A Study in the Philosophy of Psychology. Faber 1939. 268p 19cm, cloth, rubbed & worn, 20p marked in pencil £ 4.-
133 Ormiston, Gayle: Narrative Experiments. The Discursive Authority of Science and Technology. Minnesota UP 1991. cloth, dj, index, VG+ £ 12.-
134 Parratt, Lyman: Probability and Experimental Errors in Science. NY: Wiley 1966. xv 255p 19cm hb, ex lib, VG £ 6.-
135 Pearson, Karl: The Grammar of Science. Dent 1949 (Everyman). xxv 357p cloth, index, VG £ 6.-
136 Poulet, Georges: Studies in Human Time. Transl E Coleman. NY: Harper 1959. 362p 21cm card cover, index, VG £ 5.-
137 Proctor, Robert: Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge. Harvard UP 1991. xi 331p 24cm cloth, dj, bibliogr, index, w/ a chapter on the Politics of Neutrality in German Social Theory £ 14.-
138 Radder, Hans: The Material Realization of Science. A Philosophical View on the Experimental Nature Sciences, Developed in Discussion with Habermas. Assen: Gorcum 1988. viii 204p 22cm pb index bibliogr VG £ 6.-
139 Rickert, Heinrich: Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science. A Logical Introduction to the Historical Sciences. Ed. & Transl Guy Oakes. CUP 1986. xxxii 240p card , index, abr ed £ 12.-
140 Rose, Hilary & Steven: Science and Society. Pelican 1971. xvii 294p 18cm pb, index, VG £ 5.-
141 Ross, Andrew: Strange Weather. Culture, Science & Technology in the Age of Limits. Verso 1991. 275p card (sl creased), index, notes, VG: Gentler Science, Hacking Away, Cyberpunk, etc £ 10.-
142 Science and Uncertainty. Ed. Sara Nash. Science Reviews/IBM 1985. 219p hb, dj, plates, based on a IBM Conference, VG+ £ 10.-
143 Scientific Authority and 20Cent America. Ed. Ronald Walters. Johns Hopkins UP 1997. vi 271p cloth, dj, index, new: Essays by Hollinger, Ross, Brown (Germ Theory), Stilgoe etc on the limits of scientific discourse and power (medicine, farming, corporate science etc) £ 15.-
144 Serres, Michel, Latour, Bruno: Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Transl R Lapidus. Michigan State UP 1995. 204p card cover, as new £ 13.-
145 Serres, Michel: The Natural Contract. Transl E MacArthur. Michigan State UP 1995. 124p, card cover, as new £ 12.-
146 Shanin, Teodor (Ed.): The Rules of the Game. Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Models in Scholarly Thought. Travistock 1972. xv 391p 22cm hb, dj, VG. Zygmunt Bauman, A Koestler, Gunnar Myrdal, Brian Goodwin etc on cognitive structures & models in modern physics, statistics, biochemistry, history, grammar, etc £ 16.-
147 Sternberg, Robert: Metaphors of Mind. Conceptions of the Nature of Intelligence. CUP 1992. xvi 344p card cover, indices, bibliogr, VG: Geographic, computational, biological, epistemological metaphors £ 12.-
148 Stern, Peter: Prisoners of the Crystal Palace. Mapping and Understanding the Social and Cognitive Organsation of Scientific Research Fields. Umea: Boréa 1996. 223p card cover, bibliogr, as new. Science multi-layered, socio-cognitive practice, bibliometric studies in economics £ 12.-
149 Thompson, Michael: Rubbish Theory. The Creation and Destruction of Value. OUP 1979. xii 228p 23cm hb, index, illus, VG with some pencil underlining, theory indeed £ 12.-
150 Yearley, Steven: Science, Technology and Social Change. Hyman 1988. vii 199p card cover, index, bibliogr, as new, Authority of Science to Social Construction £ 10.-
science and literature:
151 Clark, Stephen: How to Live Forever. Science Fiction and Philosophy. Routledge 1995. vii 223p 23cm hb, dj, new (£ 40.-). Science Fiction as a scientific tool £ 12.-
152 Costello, Peter: Jules Verne. Inventor of Science Fiction. Hodder 1978. 239p 23cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, plates, VG+ £ 14.-
153 Friedman, Alan; Donley, Carol: Einstein as Myth and Muse. CUP 1989. xiv 224p 23cm index, many illus, the literary transformations of a physcist. paperback 8.-, hardback £ 10.-
154 Hart, Clive: Images of Flight. California UP 1988. xvii 285p 21cm, cloth, dj, small damage at spine, index, bibliogr, many illus, interdisciplinary study of the image of ascension £ 14.-
155 Henn, T R: The Apple and the Spectroscope. Lectures on Poetry designed for Science Students. Pref. L Bragg. Methuen 1951. xix 160p cloth, plates, index, appendix, ex lib VG £ 8.-
156 Kaplan, Edward: Michelet's Poetic Vision. A Romantic Philosophy of Nature, Man and Woman. Mass UP 1977. xxvi 211p 23cm cloth, dj, chronology, index, bibliogr, frontisp, VG £ 15.-
157 Leavis, F R: Two Cultures? The Significance of C P Snow. With an Essay on Snow's Rede Lecture by M Yudkin. Chatto 1962. 45p cloth, dj, VG+ 1st ed. Trashing Snow £ 12.-
158 Müller, Joachim: Die dramatische Funktion von Mephistos Monolog in Goethes Faust: Verachte nur Vernunft und Wissenschaft... Offprint 1980, 32p £ 5.-
159 Nicolson, Marjorie: Science and Imagination. Cornell UP 1956. ix 238p 19cm card cover, index, VG+, A Crombie's copy £ 14.-
160 Schmidt, Natalie: Actors and Onlookers. Theatre and Twentieth Century Scientific Views of Nature. Northwestern UP 1986. card cover, VG+ £ 10.-
161 Snow, C P: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Rede Lecture 1959. 52p card, VG+ £ 10.-
162 [Snow] Green, Martin: Science and the Shabby Curate of Poetry. Essays about the Two Cultures. Longmans 1964. xiii 159p hb, dj, VG+, response to Snow's 2 Cultures £ 12.-
early modern and earlier:
163 Bordaz, Jacques: Tools of the Old and New Stone Age. David & Charles 1970. vii 145p 21cm hb, dj, many photogr, illus, bibliogr, index, VG ex lib £ 10.-
164 Heiberg, J L: Science and Mathematics in Classical Antiquity. OUP 1922. Ed. Charles Singer. 110p cloth, index, fresh copy, transl from German £ 14.-
165 Sambursky, S: The Physical World of Late Antiquity. Routledge 1962. xii 189p 22cm cloth, dj (protected), ex lib, VG £ 12.-
166 Wahrsagetexte des Spätmittelalters aus Handschriften und Inkunabeln, Ed. Gerhard Eis. Berlin: Schmidt 1956. 76p card cover, minor wear, glossary, illus, VG £ 16.-
167 Allen, Mea: The Tradescants. Their Plants, Gardens and Museum, 1570 - 1662. Joseph 1964. 345p 24cm cloth, dj, plates, genealog table, index, a hint of waterdamage £ 14.-
168 Browne, Thomas: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths, together with : Religio Medici, with Digby's Observations. 6th Edition. London: Ekins 1672. 444p, 144p, 4to, index, new half calf marbeled boards, label, clean, very fresh copy £ 260.-
169 Cellius, Erhard: Imagines Professorum Tubingensium (1596). 2 Vols reprint, Thorbecke 1981. I: Facsimile, II: commentary & transl (German) Ed. H Decker-Hauff & W Setzler. 308p, boxed, new. An anthropology of science, with portraits, discussion of robes & other scientific paraphernalia £ 30.-
170 Statuti delli arti dei Correggiai, tavolacciai e scudai, dei Vaiai e Peliciai di Firenze (1338 - 1386) Ed. Giulia Camerani Marri. Firenze: Olschki 1960. viii 130p 23cm, card cover, index, VG £ 12.-
171 Crosby, Alfred: The Measure of Reality. Quantification and Western Society, 1250 - 1600. 245p 24cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, many illus, as new. From Qualities to Pantometry; Visualisation in painting, music & bookkeeping £ 15.-
172 Curry, Patrick: Prophecy and Power. Astrology in Early Modern England. Princeton UP 1989. ix 238p hb, dj, index, 45p bibliogr, new: Lilly, Ashmole, Popular & Judicial A, Marginalisation £ 16.-
173 Dear, Peter: Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools. Cornell UP 1988. xii 264p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, new £ 14.-
174 Dickinson, Henry: Sir Samuel Morland, Diplomat and Inventor, 1625 - 1695. Cambridge: Newcomen Society, 1970. xvi 133p 24cm cloth, dj, bibliogr of the writings of the author; a comprehensive study of this "Master of Mechanicks." VG+ £ 16.-
175 Fracastoro's Syphilis. Ed. G Eatough. Leeds: Cairns 1984. viii 295p hb, introd, transl, word index, major edition of important medical poem, favourable reviewed by one Plurabelle client £ 25.-
176 Goulet, Robert: Compendium on the Magnificence ... Compendium recenter editum de multiplici PARISIIS Universitatis Magnificientia (1517) transl R B Burke. OUP 1928. 115p 22cm half cloth, numbered copy printed on rag paper, very nice reprint, ex lib £ 16.-
177 Grant, Patrick: Literature and the Discovery of Method in the English Renaissance. Georgia UP 1985. viii 188p hb, dj, index, as new: correlating scientific and literary method: More: Richard 3; Jonson: Bart Fair; Donne: Anniversaries; Browne: Religio Medici; Law: Spirit of Love £ 12.-
178 Guillerme, André: The Age of Water. The Urban Environment in the North of France, 300 - 1800. Texas UP 1988. xv 293p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, new £ 10.-
179 Cook, Alan: Edmond Halley. Charting the Heavens and the Seas. OUP 1998. xii 540p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, 100p apendices, sources, plates, new (30.-) £ 22.-
180 Hall, A Rupert: Henry More and the Scientific Revolution. CUP 1996 (1990). xii 304p 23cm, hb, dj, index, bibliogr, new £ 18.-
181 Hallyn, Fernand: The Poetic Structure of the World. Copernicus and Kepler. transl D Leslie. NY: Zone 1993. 367p 24cm, card cover, as new £ 10.-
182 Hill, David: A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. Routledge 1996. xii 263p card cover, index, bibliogr, illus, VG+ £ 12.-
183 Kopernik, Mikolaj: De Revolutionibus (= Works, Vol 1) Warsaw 1972. x 39, 23plates, facsimile of K's MS of (propria manum) with many tables and illus, 213 fol = 426p, reproduced in colour, most learned scholarly introduction (palaeographical, not mathematical), folio (30cm) cloth, dj, a wonderful work £ 86.-
184 Leibniz, G W: De Summa Rerum, Metaphysical Papers 1675 - 1676. Ed. G Parkinson. Yale UP 1992. lxiv 145p 24cm cloth, index, notes, introd, chronolog table, as new £ 12.-
185 Michel, Henri: Traité de L'Astrolabe. Pref. E Esclangon. Paris: Gauthier Villars 1947. viii 202p 24plates 30cm card cover, postwar paper, VG £ 36.-
186 Mitchell, C M: Applied Science and Technology before the Industrial Revolution. Museums Assoc 1961. (Handbook for Museum Curators) 69p 24cm wrappers, plates, bibliogr, ex lib £ 3.-
187 Osório de Andrade, Gilberto: Morão, Rosa & Pimenta. Notícia dos três primeiros Livros em Vernáculo sôbre a Medicina no Brasil. Estudo Critico. Introd & notes by Eustáquio Duarte, pref. G Freyre. Pernambuco: Arquivio Público, 1956. xxxviii 565p 32cm illus wrap pers (sl worn), many plates, index, critical ed & reprint of early medical texts, with commentary; one of 900 copies, signed by J Emerenciano, who also contributes a preface £ 28.-
188 Pyle, Andrew: Atomism and its Critics. From Democritus to Newton. Thoemmes 1997. xiii 472p card cover, index, bibliogr, bookbrick £ 16.-
189 Sandys, J E: A Short History of Classical Scholarship, from the 6th Century to the Present Day. CUP 1915. xv 455p cloth, dj, index, illus, VG+ £ 20.-
190 Schove, D J; Fletcher, Alan: Chronology of Eclipses and Comets AD 1 - 1000. Woodbridge: Boydell 1984. xxxv 356p 24cm hb, illus, indices, bibliogr, many lists, appendices on Maya eclipses, eyewitnesses, etc, new £ 15.-
191 Stevenson, David: The Origins of Freemasonry. Scotland's Century, 1590 - 1710. CUP 1990. xii 246p 23cm, pb, index, plates, appendix, VG £ 10.-
192 Whyte, Lynn: Medieval Technology and Social Change. OUP 1964. x 194p card cover, plates, VG. The Stirrup et al, a great classic of tech & soc £ 12.-
18th century:
193 Boulton, Richard: A Compleat History of Witchcraft, Sorcery etc [1715], vol 2 (of 2) only, 235p (of which 4 in photocopy), disbound, not a very fresh copy, but very original £ 38.-
194 Brekke, A; Egeland, A: The Northern Light. From Mythology to Space Research. Berlin: Springer, 1983. xi 170p 29cm hb, plates, indices, bibliogr, appendix. Cultural & scientific history of the Aurorea Borealis, as new £ 16.-
195 Cohen, I Bernard: Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, & Madison. NY: Norton 1995. 368p cloth, dj, notes, illus, bibliogr, VG+ £ 15.-
196 Darnton, Robert: Mesmerism and the End of Enlightenment in France. Harvard UP 1968. 208p card cover, illus, index, appendices, VG+ £ 12.-
197 Deane, Phyllis: The First Industrial Revolution. CUP 1967. viii 295p card, indices, bibliogr, VG+ £ 12.-
198 Douglas, David: English Scholars. Cape 1943 (Academy). 381p cloth, dj (worn), index, historical scholarship between 1660 and 1730, constructing a past for England £ 15.-
199 English, W: The Textile Industry. An Account of Early Inventions of Spinning, Weaving, & Knitting Machines. Longmans 1969. xiv 242p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, gloss, pl, illus, as new £ 15.-
200 Ferraresi, Alessandra: (et al) Cultura e Vita Universitaria nelle Miscellanee Belcredi, Giardini, Ticinensia. Milano: Cisalpino 1986. 405p 24cm card cover, index, bibliogr, catalogue and analysis of three 18th century "fondi" of the Univ Library Pavia £ 16.-
201 Levine, Joseph: Dr Woodward's Shield. History, Science and Satire in Augustan England. Cornell UP 1991. xii 362p 24cm card cover, index, frontisp, new £ 12.-
202 Paulson, William: Elightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France. Princeton UP 1989. cloth, bibliogr, index, as new £ 14.-
203 Pera, Marcello: Ambiguous Frog. The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity. Princeton UP 1991. cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, as new £ 16.-
204 Pérez Sarriòn, Guillermo: Agua, Agricultura y Sociedad en el Siglo XVIII. El Canal Imperial de Aragon, 1766 - 1808. Zaragoza 1984. 581p 254cm card cover, maps in pocket, tables, folding tables, library stamp, VG+ £ 12.-
205 [Priestley] Graham, Jenny: Revolutionary in Exile. The Emigration of Joseph Priestley to America, 1794 - 1804. American Philos. Soc 1995. xii 213p 25cm card cover, illus, index, bibliogr, VG £ 10.-
206 Paley, William: Evidences of Christianity (1794) = Compl Works, Ed. R Lynam. Cowie 1825. vol 1 only. 452p full calf, minor loss at spine but binding still intact, with a 50p life of P, VG+ £ 15.-
207 Pugh, L P: From Farriery to Veterinary Medicine, 1785 - 1795. Cambridge: Heffer, 1962. xii 178p 24cm, cloth, 24 plates, appendix, index, VG £ 14.-
208 Short, Thomas: Discourses on Tea, Sugar, Milk, Made Wines, Spirits, Punch, Tobacco etc with Useful Rules for Gouty People. Longman 1750. Repr 1974. vi 424p 21cm cloth, new £ 16.-
209 Smith Payne, Alma: The Cleere Observer. A Biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Macmillan 1970. 128p hb, dj, index, illus, VG+, no footnotes £ 6.-
210 Sobel, Dava: Longitude. The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time. 4th Estate 1996. 184p hb, dj, index, as new £ 12.-
211 Tribe, Keith: Land, Labour, and Economic Discourse. Routledge 1978. 182p 21cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, plates. VG+. Rent as Economic Category, The Agricultural Treatise 1600 - 1800, The formation of an economic discourse £ 14.-
212 Turner, A J: Science and Music in 18th Century Bath. An Exhibition in the Holbourne of Menstrie Museum, Bath 1977. viii 131p card cover stapled, many plates, notes, bibliogr, William Herschel writ large £ 14.-
213 Voss, J¸rgen: Universitätsgeschichte, Geschichtswiss & Diplomatie im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Johann Daniel Schöpflin, 1694 - 1771. München: Fink 1979. 402p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, documentary appendix, VG+ £ 14.-
19th century:
214 Angstrøm, A-J: Recherches sur le Spectre Solaire. Uppsala / Berlin: Dümmler 1869 (over imprint Uppsala 1868). 42p xv 30cm, half leather, binding marginally worn, many tables, VG, without the atlas of plates £ 24.-
215 Ashby, Eric: Technology and the Academics. An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution. Macmillan 1958. vii 118p 22cm cloth, dj, VG+, the modernisation of the British universities in the 19th century £ 12.-
216 [Brodie] Review of Psychological Inquiries in Quarterly Rev 1854, No 191, Vol 96, 30p offpr disb £ 8.-
217 Chadwick, Edwin: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Gt Britain (1842) Ed. M W Flinn. Edinburgh UP 1985. 442p 25cm card cover, index, as new. incl a 70p introd on the rise of the public health movement £ 12.-
218 Chiarugi, Vincenzio: Saggio Theorico Pratico sulle Malattie cutanee sordide Osservate nel Regio Spedale di Bonifazio di Firenze. Firenze: Allegrini 1799. repr Firenze: Ed Riv Scient, 1989. xiii, 199p, Boxed with: Lorenzi Marri Malacrida, Emiliano Panconesi: Vincenzio Chiarugi, His Times and his Book on Sordid Cutaneaous Diseases, 62p, illus, VG £ 20.-
219 Cooter, Roger: Phrenology in the British Isles. An Annotated Historical Bio-Bibliography and Index. Scarecrow 1990. hb, as new, complete prospectus of the phrenological academy £ 18.-
220 Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Murray 1902. xxi 703p glossary, index, cloth (small tear top of spine, VG copy £ 15.-
221 Charles Darwin and his World, by Julian Huxley and H Kettlewell. BCA 1974. 144p 24cm hb, dj, plates throughout, index, notes, VG+ £ 14.-
222 [Darwin] Irvine, William: Apes, Angels and Victorians. A Joint Biography of Darwin and Huxley. RU 1956. 278p 20cm hb, plates, minor wear, ex lib £ 12.-
223 [Darwin] Johnson, Phillip: Darwin on Trial. Washington: Regnery 1991. 195p 24cm cloth, dj, index, as new: A Berkeley law professor condemns Charles "Earthworm" D. £ 12.-
224 David, Deidre: Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy. Cornell UP 1992. index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 12.-
225 Hartley, Harold: Humphry Davy. Wakefield: SR 1971 (1966). viii 160p 22cm card cover, index, plates, bibliogr, VG+ £ 8.-
226 Dempster, W J: Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection. 19Cent Gentleman Farmer, Naturalist and Writer. Edinburgh: Harris 1983. 156p hb, dj, bibliogr, plates, appendix on corresp w/ Darwin, selection used by breeders, Darwinism before Origins, as new £ 12.-
227 Dupree, A Hunter: Asa Gray. American Botanist, Friend of Darwin. Johns Hopkins UP 1988 (1959). xx 503p 22cm card cover, plates, index, notes, VG+ £ 12.-
228 [Education] Three Lectures on Subjects Connected with the Practice of by H W Eve, Arthur Sidgwick, E A Abbott. CUP 1883. 96p 17cm cloth, ex lib, sl worn, w/ an essay On Marking £ 10.-
229 Enfield, William: The New Encyclopaedia, Or Circle of Knowledge and Science, digested, in a Concise and Popular Manner, in Distinct Treatises, Vol 10 = Elements of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Part 2 only, Containing: Optics (68p), Chemistry (114p), Botany, Animal Kingdom, The Human Frame (110p). London: Tegg 1809. 282p 14cm, 7 engr plates. Full leather new repair, nice £ 48.-
230 The Life of Sir William Fairbairn, Bart. Partly Written by Himself. Ed. W Poole. David & Charles 1970 (reprint of 1877 ed with new introd) xxiii xvi 507p 23cm hb, dj, frontisp, bibliogr, index, as new, one of the great engineers of the 19th cent £ 17.-
231 [Fires & Fire Insurance] Review of 7 titles on Fire Brigades, London Fires, Statistical Journal etc in Quarterly Review 1854, No 191, Vol 96, 40p offprint disbound, last p as photocopy £ 8.-
232 [Fire, Open Fire-Place] Review of 5 titles on Warming, Ventilating, Domestic Architecture in Quarterly Review 1854, No 191, Vol 96, 30p illus, offprint disbound £ 8.-
233 Benzie, William: Dr F J Furnivall. A Victorian Scholar Adventurer. Pilgrim 1991. hb, dj, VG+ £ 12.-
234 Galvani, Luigi: Il "Taccuino" [Notebook]. Riproduzione in Fac-simile dell'Autografo. Ed. Comitato per la Celebrazione del II Centenario della Nascita di L Galvani. Bologna: Zanichelli 1937. introd Albano Sorbelli, the entries start 1795, 68 leaves (=136p) + 41p transcription and notes, bound in plain parchment (sl soiled), boxed, very nice £ 36.-
235 Gosse, Philip Henry: Tenby: A Sea-Side Holiday. London: Voorst 1856. (1st ed) xviii 400p, 24 colour plates, index, appendix: proposals for additional works by Gosse, original cloth (top of spine minimal damage), fresh copy in very nice condition. Seaside as a sientific site: detailed record of a summer holiday, daily occurrences as they occurred; tide-pool explorations, cavern searchings, microscopic examinations, road-side pryings, etc £ 88.-
236 Haeckel, Ernst: Die Welträthsel. Bonn: Strauss 1899. 473p cloth, index, VG+ £ 14.-
237 Helmholtz, Hermann von: Epistemological Writings. Newly transl M Lowe, introd Robert S Cohen, Yehuda Elkana. Dordrecht: Reidel 1977. (Boston Studies 37) xxviii 205p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, as new, from the German ed of 1921 £ 20.-
238 Himmelfarb, Gertrude: Victorian Minds. A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition. NY: Dee 1994. card cover, as new £ 12.-
239 Hunt, Bruce: The Maxwellians. Cornell UP 1991. xi 266p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus: The post-humous construction of Maxwell's Theory £ 15.-
240 Huxley, Thomas Henry: Science and Culture and Other Essays. Macmillan 1881. xi 349p 23cm cloth (sl discolored) bookpl, illus, 1st ed, VG. on Zadig's Method, Universities, Physiology, and, of course, Darwin £ 22.-
241 [Huxley] Mitchell, P C: Thomas Henry Huxley. A Sketch of his Life and Work. Methuen Shilling Library 1913. 276p 18cm cloth worn, index, £ 5.-
242 Desmond, Adrian: T H Huxley. The Devil's Disciple. Joseph 1994. xvii 475p 24cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, 36 plates (many previously unpublished), many notes, strong prose, based on archival research, stamped, as new £ 12.-
243 Kaplan, Edward: Michelet's Poetic Vision. A Romantic Philosophy of Nature, Man & Woman. Mass UP 1977. xxvi 211p 23cm cloth, dj, chronology, index, bibliogr, frontisp, VG £ 15.-
244 Knight, David: The Age of Science. The Scientific World-View in the 19th Century. Blackwell 1986. x 251p hb, dj, index, notes, VG+, lib stamp cancelled, a comprehensive survey £ 18.-
245 Mair, Craig: David Angus. The Life and Adventures of a Victorian Railway Engineer. Stevenage: Strong Oak 1989. xii 218p 23cm hb, index, plates: work in Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile £ 14.-
246 Manchester: A Collection of approx 20 scientific offprints documenting science in MANCHESTER 1870 - 1899, including Owen College addresses and bye laws, and incl 10 offprints by W Marshall Watts on spectral analysis, double spectra of Carbon, e&c (Watt was Dalton Scholar at Owens College Manchester, Physical Science Master at Manch Grammar School, and later Physical Science Master at Giggleswick Grammar School). Details available, the lot £ 68.-
247 Mansel, H L: The Philosophy of the Conditioned. Comprising some Remarks on Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and on Mr J S Mill's Examination. Strahan 1866. vii 189p 21cm, cloth, spine dull, VG ex lib copy £ 10.-
248 Metropolis and Province. Science in British Culture, 1780 - 1850. Ed. Ian Inkster, Jack Morrell. Pennsylvania UP 1983. 288p 22cm hb, dj, indices, as new, essays on London Lecturing Empire, Cholera, Mineralogical Society, Bristol, Edinburgh (S Shapin), Newcastle, etc £ 12.-
249 Morton, Vanda: Oxford Rebels. The Life and Friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne, 1823 - 1911. Pioneer Oxford Scientist, Photographer and Politician. Gloucester: Stuton 1987. 182p 24cm hb, dj, index, plates, VG+ £ 15.-
250 Owen, Richard: Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy. May, June 1837. Chicago UP 1991. card cover, index, as new £ 12.-
251 Pickering, George: Creative Malady. Illness in the Lives and Minds of Darwin, Nightingale, Freud, Proust, E Barrett Browning, Mary Baker-Eddy. Allen & Unwin 1974. 327p 22cm cloth, dj, index, plates, VG+ ex lib £ 14.-
252 Pole, William: The Life of Sir William Siemens, FRS. Murray 1888. xii 412p 23cm cloth (spine partly torn but still in place), plates, index, VG £ 18.-
253 Schaffer, Simon: (et al) 1900: The New Age. A Guide to the Exhibition. Cambridge: Whipple Museum 1994. 102p spiral binder, sl smoke-soiled, illus, L'Exposition Universelle de 1900 £ 4.-
254 Stewart, Balfour; Tait P G: Paradoxical Philosophy. A Sequel to The Unseen Universe. Macmillan 1878. 235p cloth, VG. Fairbank, Stoffkraft & Holdfast perform a Platonic dialogue £ 12.-
255 Tomlinson, Norman: Louis Brennan: Inventor Extraordinaire. Chatham: Hallewell 1980. xi 105p 21cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, plates, as new. Born 1852, invented Monorail, Helicopter, Dirigible, Code, etc £ 12.-
256 Trebilcock, Clive: The Industrialization of the Continental Powers, 1780 - 1914. Longman 1989. xvi 495p card cover, index, bibliogr, tables, VG ex lib £ 12.-
257 Walker, Thomas: The Severn Tunnel. Its Construction and Difficulties, 1872 - 1887. Kingsmead Reprints 1969 (1891). 240p hb, dj, many folding maps and plans, VG £ 14.-
20th century, modern, postmodern:
258 [Abbott, Edwin]: Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. by A Square. Blackwell 1974 (1884). x 102p 22cm, card cover, introd W Garnett, still VG ex lib copy £ 8.-
259 Auger, Pierre: Current Trends in Scientific Research. Survey of Trends in Natural Sciences, the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, and the Application of such Knowledge to Peaceful Ends. Paris: UNESCO 1961. 245p 28cm cloth, VG £ 14.-
260 Bell, Daniel: The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. A Venture in Social Forecasting. Heinmann 1974. xiii 506p cloth, dj, indices, VG+ fresh copy, the knowledge society £ 16.-
261 Benthall, J: The Body Electric. Patterns of Western Industrial Culture. Thames 1976. 222p 23cm hb dj, plates, quotes Derrida and Adorno, VG+ 16.-
262 Brown, Harrison; Bonner, James; et al: The Next Hundred Years. SBC 1956. 208p hb, dj, bit dusty. Science imagines the science of the future. VG £ 10.-
263 Brumwell, J R M (Ed.): This Changing World. A Series [of Essays] to Cast Light upon the Pattern of the Modern World. Routledge 1945. 286p 23cm cloth, illus, plates, index, bibliogr, essays by H Read, Bernal, Needham, Waddington, Crowther, Mannheim, Mumford, etc £ 14.-
264 Comfort, Alex: Reality and Empathy. Physics, Mind & Science in the 21st Century. Albany: SUNY Press 1984. xxi 272p 22cm card cover, index bibliogr, illus, pencil annotations, VG. Author also published poetry and the original Joy of Sex £ 10.-
265 Furnass, C C: The Next 100 Years. The Unfinished Business of Science. Cassell 1936. xx 366p 22cm, cloth, VG £ 8.-
266 Gardner, Martin: The Ambidextrous Universe. Lane 1967. 272p 23cm cloth, illus, index, pencil underlining, the breakdown of parity £ 10.-
267 Gemelli, Agostino: Über das Entstehen von Gestalten. Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung. Offprint 1928. 60p, cover worn, VG £ 8.-
268 Gillespie, Charles: Manufacturing Knowledge. A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. CUP 1991. x 282p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, VG+: Conducted 1924 -1933, these experim in workers' productivity became the scientific foundation of social & behavioral science £ 15.-
269 Leach, Gerald: Science Shapes Tomorrow. Phoenix House 1962. 140p 15cm hb, dj, 45 plates, illus, index, VG £ 10.-
270 Le Esprit Nouveau. LeCorbusier und die Industrie 1900 - 1920. Ed. Stanislaus von Moos. Katalog, Zürich: Museum für Gestalung 1987. 296p 28cm card cover, many illus, bibliogr, VG £ 20.-
271 Lucas, Jack: Our Polluted Food. A Survey of the Risks. Knight 1975. vii 237p 22cm cloth dj ex lib VG+, tables, illus £ 10.-
272 Miller, Donald: Mumford. A Life. Pittsburg UP 1989. card cover, as new £ 10.-
273 Pyke, Magnus: The Science Century. Murray 1967. x 183p 22cm hb, dj, plates, clean ex lib. 1967, wonderfully optimistic £ 8.-
274 Regis, Ed: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition. Addison 1990. 308p 24cn half cloth, dj, index, bibligr, as new: Contemporary Science slightly over the edge £ 10.-
275 Russell, E John: Science and Modern Life. Epworth 1955. 100p 19cm hb dj, VG £ 3.-
276 Science in the Changing World. Ed. Mary Adams. Allen & Unwin 1933. 286p cloth, index, contrib by J Huxley, A Huxley, J B Haldane, B Russell, VG £ 14.-
277 Scientific Thought, 1900 - 1960. A Selective Survey. Ed. Rom Harré. OUP 1969. viii 277p 23cm cloth, dj, illus, VG ex lib, emphasis on biolog sciences: Logic, Cosmos, Matter, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Hormones, Cell, Virus, Ethology £ 18.-
278 Smith, Mark: Social Science in the Crucible. The American Debate over Objectivity and Purpose 1918 - 1941. Duke UP 1993. 352p 24cm card cover, index, as new £ 10.-
279 Snow, C P: Variety of Men: Rutherford, Hardy, Wells, Einstein, Churchill, Stalin, Frost etc. Macmillan 1967 204p 22cm hb, dj, ex lib VG+ £ 10.-
scientific (auto) biographies (20th cent):
280 Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 26 (1980) to 32(1986) plus 34(1988) plus 38 (1992), approx 1000p each, 25cm cloth dj, w/ bibliogr on microfiche, as new, the ultimate source in modern scientific biography, £ 24.- each, or the lot (9 vols) £ 140.-
281 Bertram, Colin: Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist. Bertram (priv pub) 1992. 248p 24cm hb, dj, as new £ 10.-
282 Castellani, Aldo: Microbes, Men & Monarchs. Autobiogr. SBC ?1960. 287p hb, dj, sl soiled £ 8.-
283 Eisenbud, Merril: An Environmental Odyssey. People, Pollution & Politics in the Life of a Scientist. Delhi: Macmillan 1993. xi 264p cloth, dj, index, chemical and radioactive pollution £ 12.-
284 Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick. A Memoir. CUP/privately printed 1937. 53p 22cm cloth, frontisp, bibliogr, plate of Cavendish laboratory 1900, a Cambridge don, nice fresh copy £ 10.-
285 Frisch, Otto: What Little I Remember. CUP 1980. xi 227p card cover, many plates, index, VG £ 12.-
286 [Haldane] Clark, Ronald: J B S. The Life and Work of J B S Haldane. Hodder 1968. 286p cloth, dj, index, Haldane bibliography, plates, VG+ £ 14.-
287 Harris, Henry: The Balance of Improbabilities. A Scientific Life. OUP 1987. vii 245p 22cm cloth, dj, index, illus, plates. Regius Prof of Medicine Oxford, cell biologist £ 12.-
288 Hutton, R S: Recollections of a Technologist. Pitman 1964. 204p 22cm cloth, dj (torn), plates, index, metallurgy & material sciences in Cambridge £ 12.-
289 Jacob, François: La Statue Interieure. Paris: Seuil 1987. 365p card cover sl worn, autobiographical writing in sentences without verbs £ 8.-
290 Levi, Primo: The Periodic Table. Transl R Rosenthal. NY: Schocken 1985. 233p 21cm hb, dj, as new £ 8.-
291 Ostwald, Wilhelm: Lebenslinien. Eine Selbstbiographie. Erster Teil: Riga - Dorpat - Riga, 1853 - 1887. Berlin: Klasing, 1926. 268p, decor clothb boards, incomplete, VG+ £ 6.-
292 Parkes, Alan: Off Beat Biologist. The Autobiography Alan S Parkes. Cambridge: Galton 1985. 484p 24cm cloth, dj, plates, index, as new; plus: PARKES, A: Biologist at Large. The Background to Off Beat Biologist. Cambridge: privately pub, 1988. 465p 24cm cloth, dj, many plates, index, VG. Physiologist (born 1901), in Cambridge and around the world, the set £ 22.-
293 [Pauling] Goertzel, Ted & Ben: Linus PAULING. A Life in Science and Politics. NY: Basic 1995. xvii 300p 24cm half cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, plates, illus, as new £ 10.-
294 Robinson, Charles: 20th Century Druggist. Memoirs. Beverley: Galen Press 1983. 244p card, index, photogr, sl worn, pharmacist in Düsseldorf (1937), Australia (Bayer), London £ 10.-
295 Sale, Charles: The Specialist. Illus W Kermode. Nattali 1948. 29p cloth, nice copy: the ethos & artistry of sanitary engineering, the moustache of a Liechtensteiner historian of science £ 4.-
296 Scheich, Carl Ludwig: Besonnte Vergangenheit. Lebenserinnerungen 1859 - 1919. Berlin: Rowohlt 1922. 231p cloth, dj, VG: MD, inventor of anaestetic technique, philosopher, and poet: Bildungsbürgertum 200% £ 8.-
297 Leo Szilard: Prophet of the Atomic Age, by A & E Esterer. NY: Messner 1972. 189p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 12.-
298 Waksman, Selman: My Life with Microbes. SBC 1958. 320p 22cm hb, index, streptomycin Noble Price £ 10.-
299 The Recollections of Eugene P Wigner, as told to Andrew Szanton. Plenum 1992. xxiv 335p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+: Manhattan Project, Nobel Price Physicist £ 12.-
company histories:
300 [Drapers Company] Archer-Thomson, W (Ed.): History of the Companies, Properties and Trusts. 2 Vols, very privately printed [1942]. vii 277p xv 288p 33cm cloth, unused ex lib copy, crisp paper, VG+. "This book belongs to the Company. ... It should never be allowed to be offered for sale" £ 100.-
301 Goodall, Francis: A Bibliography of British Business Histories. Bower: Aldershot 1987. v 638p 24cm cloth, dj, indices, VG+ ex lib, a wonderful bibliographical source £ 25.-
302 [Alcoa] Graham, M; Pruitt, B: R & D for Industry. A Century of Technical Innovation at ALCOA. CUP 1990. x 644p 25cm cloth dj, index, many plates, 100p notes, a veritable tome, new £ 20.-
303 Coleman, D C: Courtaulds. An Economic and Social History. Vol 1: The Nineteenth Century: Slik & Crape; Vol 2: Rayon. Oxford: Clarendon 1969. xxii 274p, xxii 521p 24cm cloth, dj, indexes, (folding) tables, plates, comprehensive study, but vol 2 sl bent out of shape £ 25.-
304 [Dunlop] Jennings, Paul: Dunlopera. The Work and Workings of the Dunlop Rubber Company. Priv Pub 1961. 158p 25cm coarse cloth, many plates, illus, library bookplate, VG+ £ 12.-
305 Cartwright, A P: The Dynamite Company. The Story of African Explosives and Chemicals Ltd. Macdonald 1964. 267p 24cm cloth, dj, plates, illus, index, list of directors, VG+ £ 12.-
306 Esso Magazine. Staff Magazine of Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd. Vol 1, No 1, 1946 to 1951. Bi-monthly (later bi-annually, 8vo (later 4o) bound in two vols, approx 250p each, many illus throughout, VG+. One of the Seven Sisters presenting herself £ 26.-
307 Wicht, Wolfgang: Glanzstoff. Zur Geschichte der Chemiefaser, eines Unternehmens, und seiner Arbeiterschaft. Neustadt: Schmidt 1992. (Bergische Forschungen) 377p card cover, index, bibliogr, tables, VG+ £ 13.-
308 ICI: Equipment of an Industry. ICI 1947?. 74p 30cm, hb, 34 industrial applications of science, described and aesthetically photographed, lib label, VG+ £ 15.-
309 Research in Unilever. Unilever: privately printed 1957. 17p 19cm plates, new £ 8.-
alchemy:
310 Jung, C G: Psychology and Alchemy. Routledge 1953. (Collected Works 12) xxiii 563p 24cm cloth, many plates, index, bibliogr, clean fresh copy £ 18.-
311 Morris, Owen: The "Chymick Bookes" of Sir Owen of Gwydir: An Annotated Cataloge. Cambr: LP 1997. xii 58p card cover, as new £ 13.-
312 Roberts, Gareth: The Languages of Alchemy. BL 1997. 25p 24cm, card cover, many illus, bibliogr, new. The discourse of alchemy: pictorial & linguistic £ 10.-
biology:
313 D'Arcy Thompson, Wentworth: On Growth and Form. (1917) Abridged Ed. J T Bonner. CUP 1971. xiv 346p card cover, index, illus, VG: The mathematics and physics of biology £ 12.-
314 Anderson, Walter: Evolution isn't What it Used to Be. The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World. NY: Freeman 1996. 293p 24m hb, dj, as new £ 10.-
315 Babloyantz, A: Molecules, Dynamics and Life. An Introduction to the Self-Organisation of Matter. NY: Wiley 1986. 345p 24cm cloth, dj, index, VG+ £ 14.-
316 Bach, A N: [Collected Works, Chemistry and Biochemistry] Moscow 1950. xvi 647p 25cm hb, plates, index, text in Kyrillic, inscribed by Joseph Needham £ 8.-
317 Biotechnology in Future Society, Scenarios & Options for Europe. Ed. Edward Yoxen, V di Martino. Aldershot: Dartmouth 1989. (European Foundation for Improvement of Living & Working Conditions) xiv 147p hb, bibliogr, VG+, incl Yoxon on historical perspectives £ 10.-
318 Butler, J A V: Gene Control in the Living Cell. Allen 1968. x 164p 22cm hb, dj, illus, part 2 on Genes and Cancer £ 6.-
319 Cook, Joseph: Biology. Pref. A Melville. Glasgow: Bryce 1878. viii 261p 18cm cloth, some old pencil marks, VG+. First given as Boston Monday Lectures, on Huxley, Evolution, Lotze, Emerson etc, without the 2nd part, general essays entitled Preludes on Current Events £ 26.-
320 Crick, Francis: Life Itself. Its Origin and Nature. Macdonald 1982. 192p half cloth, index, VG £ 10.-
321 Cutbill, J L: (Ed.) Data Processing in Biology and Geology. Academic Press 1971. xv 346p 24cm cloth, dj, many plates, index, VG ex lib £ 12.-
322 Dawkins, Richard: The Selfish Gene. OUP 1977. xi 224p 23cm cloth, VG with pencil underling £ 10.-
323 Dawkins, Richard: The Extended Phenotype. OUP 1982. viii 306p 23cm card cover, indices, glossary, bibliogr, some pencil annotations £ 10.-
324 Evolution Fact & Theory, H G Wells, Julian Huxley, P G Wells. Cassell 1934. x 271p cloth, index, many illus, nice copy £ 12.-
325 Great Experiments in Biology. Ed. M Gabiel; S Fogel. Prentice Hall 1965 (1955). xiii 317p 22cm card cover, index, VG. Collection of original experiments, some translated or edited £ 12.-
326 Grimstone, A V: Electron Microscope in Biology. Arnold 1977. 64p 22cm hb, plates, VG ex lib £ 6.-
327 Huxley, Julian: Essays of a Biologist. Chatto & Windus 1929 (Phoenix Lib) xv 311p 18cm, cloth, index, bibliogr, VG, Biology & Sociology etc £ 12.-
328 Introduction to Molecular Biology. (Haggis, Michie, Muir, Roberts, Walker) Longmans 1965. xii 401p 22cm cloth, ex lib, many illus, index, £ 12.-
329 Jacob, François: The Logic of Life. A History of Heredity. Trans B Spillmann. NY: Pantheon 1982. x 348p 21cm pb, index, new preface, VG £ 10.-
330 Kaye, Howard: The Social Meaning of Modern Biology. From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology. Yale UP 1986. ix 184p 21cm card cover as new £ 10.-
331 Kraus, Gerhard: Homo Sapiens in Decline. A Reappraisal of Natural Selection. Diffusionist Press 1973. 189p 22cm wrappers, index, VG ex lib £ 5.-
332 Meier, Heinrich: Die Herausforderung der Evolutionsbiologie. Piper 1989. 293p 19cm pb, VG+ £ 5.-
333 Perutz, Max: Proteins and Nucleic Acids. (Weizmann Lecture 1961) Elsevier 1964. x 211p 19cm cloth, ex lib VG £ 10.-
334 History of the Internat Congresses of Physiological Sciences, 1889 - 1968. Ed. W Fenn. (220)p cloth, plates, VG+. Incl essay about the Minnelahda Voyage: 600 European physiologists charter a boat to travel to the 1929 Boston Congress, and have a great time on board £ 10.-
335 Ramsay, J A: The Experimental Basis of Modern Biology. CUP 1965. xii 337p 24cm cloth, index, many illus, VG+. On Structure, Energy, & Inheritance, etc £ 10.-
336 Rose, Stephen: The Chemistry of Life. 2nd Ed. Penguin 1979. 301p pb, index, illus, plates, VG+ £ 6.-
337 Sapp, Jan: Where the Truth Lies. Franz Moewus and the Origins of Molecular Biology. CUP 1990. ix 340p index, bibliogr (2), illus, VG+ £ 12.-
338 Schmithausen, Lambert: The Problem of the Sentience of Plants in Earliest Buddhism. Tokyo: Internat Inst, 1991. 121p 25cm card cover, index, bibliography, notes, new £ 10.-
339 Studies from the Morphological Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, Ed. F M Balfour, Adam Sedgwick. William & Norgate 1882 - 1896, vol 1, pt 2 - vol 6. 6 vols, 25cm (vol 1, 22cm), cloth, approx 200p each, with many plates (microscope), partly folding, many coloured, some signed Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. The unified output of one famous laboratory, this fresh set lacks the first part of the 1st vol £ 80.-
340 Taylor, G R: The Science of Life. A Pictorial History of Biology. Panther 1968. 368p 22cm, pb, boxed, 336 illus, index, VG+ £ 16.-
341 Taylor, G R: The Biological Time-Bomb. Thames 1969. 240p 22cm cloth (sl worn), index, ex lib. Where are Biologists taking us? The Genetic Engineers, The Future, if Any £ 12.-
342 Thomson, Allen: Address [to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1878] 32p, no title, interesting review of physiological/biological research £ 10.-
343 Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland. (=Proceedings of the Royal Soc of Edinburgh, B, vol 84, 1983). viii 373p 24cm card cover, many illus, VG+. Essays by various authors, on various sciences, incl brewing £ 12.-
344 Walden, Howard: Native Inheritance. The Story of Corn in America. NY: Harper: 1966. xx 199p 21cm cloth, dj, as new ex lib £ 10.-
345 Watson, James: The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Structure of the DNA. Weidenfeld 1968. xvi 226p 22cm hb, dj, (discolouring), plates, VG 12.-
346 Weissmann, Gerald: The Biological Revolution. Applications of Cell Biology to Public Welfare. NY: Plenum 1979. 154p 22cm hb, dj, many illus, VG ex lib £ 8.-
347 Wikgren, Bo-Jungar: Biologins Historia. Allmänt och i Finland. Abo Acad förlad 1996. 110p 24cm card cover, as new £ 4.-
348 The Use of X-Ray Diffraction in the Study of Protein and Nucleic Acid structure. K C Holmes, C M Blow. Wiley 1966. [140p] illlus, hb, VG ex lib £ 8.-
349 [Zoologie] Compte-Rendu des Séances du Congres International de Zoologie [Paris 1889]. Ed. Raphael Blanchard. Paris: Soc Zoologique 1890. xxii 511p 25cm paper cover sl fragile, 5plates, 38illus, index, VG £ 18.-
chemistry:
350 American Chemical Society: Cleaning our Environment. The Chemical Basis for Action. Supplement. Priority Recommendations with Supporting Discussion. ACS 1971. 20p £ 1.-
351 Baum, Harold: The Biochemists' Songbook. Pref. Hans Krebs. Oxford: Pergamon 1982. xii 62p 21cm card cover, illus, as new £ 6.-
352 Brooke, John: Thinking about Matter. Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy. Aldershot: Variorum 1995. xii 290p cloth, index, new, essays on Priestley, Davy, Vitalism, Wöhler, Berzelius etc £ 16.-
353 Brown, Alexander Crum: On an Application of Mathematics to Chemistry. Offprint 1867. 9p, author inscription, VG £ 8.-
354 Crosland, Maurice: Historical Studies in the Language of Chemistry. NY: Dover 1978 (1962) xxvi 406p card cover, indices, bibliogr, illus, VG+: From the Language of Alchemy to Systematic Nomenclature £ 18.-
355 [Dalton] Review of Henry's Life of Dalton & Daubeny's Atomic Theory in Quarterly Review 1854, No 191, Vol 96, 40p, offprint disbound, 1 p photocopy £ 8.-
356 Delhaes-Guenther, Karl von: Kali in Deutschland. Vorindustrien, Produktionstechniken und Marktprozesse der deutschen Kaliwirtschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Wien: Böhlau 1974. ix 177p xxxv 20cm card cover (misbound), VG+ £ 10.-
357 Gilbert, J H: Address to the Chemical Section of the British Association, Swansea 1880. No imprint. 28p small print, gives a review of agricultural chemistry and its recent advances £ 14.-
358 Hufbauer, Karl: The Formation of the German Chemical Community, 1720 - 1795. California UP 1982. viii 312p card cover, indices, Crell's subscribers, 80p small print bibliographical profiles, institutional histories, plates, as new £ 18.-
359 Report of the Committee on Enquiry into the Relationship between University Courses in Chemistry and the Needs of Industry. Chairman Colin Eaborn. Royal Inst of Chemistry 1979. viii 337p 24cm card cover, tables, appendices, VG+ £ 6.-
360 Rossini, Frederick: (Ed.) Experimental Thermochemistry. Measurements of Heats of Reaction. NY: Interscience, 1956. xv, 326p 23cm. Combustion chemistry £ 12.-
361 Vincent, Camille: 4 offprints: Produits Chimiques. [Exposition Universelle de 1878 a Paris] 5ème Groupe, Classe 47. Paris: Lahure ?1878. 34p 18cm offprint, with two colour samples (silk?); Note sur les Propriétés, la préparation et les empolois du chlorure de méthyle. Lille: Du Coulombier 1878. 15p 22cm author inscription to Roscoe; P Schützenberger: Rapport fait au nom du Comité des Arts chimiques sur un Memoire de C[amille] Vincent intitule Fabrication du Chlorure de Methyle. 7p plus one similar £ 20.-
362 Von der Phlogistik zum modernen Chemie. Vorträge aus Anlaß des 250. Geburtstages von M Klaproth Ed. M Engel. Berlin 1994. 287p new £ 28.-
363 Weldon, Walter: On the Manufacture of Chlorine. Privately printed 1874. 36p 21cm, with a MS list of "captions" on Weldon stationary; & Weldon, W: Report, Weldon Clorine Processes August 1872. 4p 32cm sl foxing, folded, giving "... general results of the experimental operations with my new form of process for the manufacure of clorine..."; & Weldon, W: Cyanogen Compounds in Alkali-Making. Two Letters and a Postscript in a Reply to James Mactear. Privately printed 1878. 32p 21cm 3 tables; & Weldon, W: On Some Recent Statement Regarding Weldon Mud. no imprint 23p, polemic against German "research" and asserts primacy of his invention of a new form of process £ 50.-
colonial science:
364 African Systems of Science, Technology and Art. The Nigerian Experience. Ed. G Thomas-Emeagwali. Karnak 1993. 143p 22cm card cover, illus, notes, as new £ 6.-
365 Alvares, Claude: Science Development and Violence. Revolt against Modernity. Delhi: OUP 1992. ix 186p cloth, dj, index, stamped, VG. The myth of development, "Science and Himsa" £ 10.-
366 Anti-Racist Science Teaching. Ed. Dawn Gill, Les Levidow. Free Association 1987. 324p 22cm card cover index, illus, VG+ £ 12.-
367 Araujo, Carlos da Silva: Figuras e Factos na História da Farmácia no Brasil Portoguês. Lisboa: Imperio, 1954. 84p 18cm pb, bibliogr £ 4.-
368 Engineering Societies in the Life of a Country. A Series of Lectures. Ed. T L Dennis. Inst Civil Engineers 1968. vii 166p 21cm hb, dj, plates, incl a 50p essay on Engineering Societies in Developing Countries £·12.-
369 Harricombe, Lorraine; Lancaster, F W: Out in the Cold. Academic Boycotts & the Isolation of South Africa. Arlington: Info Res 1995. xii 158p cloth, index, appendices, bibliogr, as new £ 12.-
370 Mendelssohn, Kurt: Science and Western Domination. RU 1977. 224p 20cm hb, dj, plates, index, sl yellowed, VG £ 12.-
371 Nasr, S H: Islamic Science. An Illustrated Study. World Islam 1976. xiv 274p 30cm card cover, many colour plates, comprehensive index, bibliogr, new £ 16.-
372 Walden, Howard: Native Inheritance. The Story of Corn in America. NY: Harper: 1966. xx 199p 21cm cloth, dj, as new ex lib £ 10.-
communication technologies: rail, car, post, telephone:
373 [Transport] Strasse - Wasser - Schiene; Transporttechnik und Industrialisierung. Special issue of Ferrum, Nachrichten aus der Eisenbibliothek, Schaffhausen, No 62, 1990. 107p 30cm, new, illus. 13 essays. £ 8.-
374 Aldcroft, Derek: Studies in British Transport History, 1870 - 1970. David & Charles 1974. vi 309p 23cm hb, dj, index, appendix, ex lib VG £ 12.-
375 Electricity in Transport. Over Sixty Years of Experience. 1883 - 1950. Siemens Co; Dick, Kerr & Co; The English Electric Co. EEC 1951. 183p 23cm hb, illus throughout, VG £ 10.-
376 Railway Passenger Travel 1825 - 1880. [26p] 21cm card cover, many illus, reprint (1962) of 1888 edition, contemporary advertising, VG+ £ 8.-
377 Norton, Tom: The Evolution of the Bicycle, 1867 - 1938. Historical and Descriptive Notes of the Collection of an Old Timer. 40p card cover soiled, stapled, VG £ 6.-
378 Piggott, Stuart: The Earliest Wheeled Transport. From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea. Thames & Hudson 1983. 272p 25cm hb, dj, many plates, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 16.-
379 Meyer, Stephen: The Five Dollar Day. Labour Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908 - 1921. SUNY Press 1981. x 249p card cover, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 12.-
380 Altshuler, Alan: The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 1979. xii 558p 24cm cloth, dj, index, tables, VG £ 15.-
381 Wright, Patrick: On a Clear Day you can see General Motors. John Z de Lorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant. Grosse Point: Wright 1979. x 237p 22cm hb, index, plates, some pencil underlining, VG. Why I quit GM £ 10.-
382 White, Lawrence: The Automobile Industry since 1945. Harvard UP 1971. xii 348p 24cm cloth, index, bibliogr, many tables, few underlinings, a fresh copy £ 14.-
383 Noble, Dudley; Junner, G: Vital to the Life of the Nation. A Historical Survey of the Progress of Britain's Motor Industry from 1896-1946. London: Society of Motor Manuf, 1946. 155p 30cm hb, spine defective, modern automobility as a consequence of WW2 £ 8.-
384 Bloomfield, Gerald: The World Automotive Industry. Newton Abbot: David 1978. 368p 23cm hb, dj, many plates & illus, notes sources, index, VG £ 14.-
385 Perry, C R: The Victorian Post-Office. Royal Historical Society 1992. xi 308p 23cm hb, bibliogr, index, as new. (40.-) £ 14.-
386 Haldane, A R B: Three Centuries of Scottish Posts. A Historical Survey to 1836. Edinb UP 1971. 336p 24cm, cloth, dj, maps, index, bibliogr, plates, illus, handsome & scientific, new £ 14.-
387 Boltz, C L: Wireless. An Account of the General Principles underlying the Modern Magic of Wireless Reception. SBC 1939. 275p 22cm, plain cloth, index, VG £ 8.-
388 Bruce, Robert: Bell. Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Cornell UP 1990. xi 564p cloth, index, notes, many illus, new. The History of the telephone £ 16.-
389 Carré, Patrice: [France Telecom] Proust, le téléphone et la modernité. France Telecom, offprint 1988, 11p illus, VG £ 3.-
390 Communications for a Mobile Society. An Assessment of New Technology. Ed. Raymond Bowers et al. Sage 1978. 432p 24cm cloth, dj, index, VG+: an early science and society study £ 12.-
391 Garnham, S A; Hadfield, R: The Submarine Cable. The Story of the Submarine Telegraph Cable. Sampson Low 1933? xi 242p 22cm cloth, spine 1 edge torn, plates, index, library label £ 8.-
392 Hopper, Robert: Telephone Conversation. Indiana UP 1992. xiv 246p 23cm card cover, index, bibliogr, illus, VG linguistic analysis of telephone language £ 10.-
393 Mitchell, Bridger; Vogelsang, Ingo: Telecommunications Pricing. Theory and Practice. CUP 1991. xv 307p 24cm hb, dj, notes, tables, graphs, as new, (£ 45.-) £ 12.-
394 Morris, Robert: Between the Lines: A History of the British Public Telephone and Telecommunications Service 1870 - 1990. JustWrite 1994. 126p 23cm hb, dj, many plates, as new £ 8.-
395 Pool, Ithiel de Sola: Technologies without Boundaries. On Telecommunications in a Global Age. Harvard UP 1990. xiii 283p 24cm cloth, index, tables, VG+ £ 12.-
396 Russell, W H: The Atlantic Telegraph (1865). David & Charles 1972. vi 117p hb, dj, great illus, as new, the romance of electrical intelligence £ 14.-
397 Squier, George: Telling the World. Baltimore: Williams 1933 (Century of Progress) xi 163p 21cm cloth (soiled) frontisp, inscribed, author's bookpl, red pencil markings, firm. The author (Major-General) dedicated this book to The Telephone Girl and develops the military origins of telephone and radio. The original Friedrich Kittler £ 12.-
398 [Telegraph] The Science of Electricity as Applied in Peace and War. 42p review essay of Kelvin's Papers and pub.s on telegraphs from Quarterly Review 1877, original cover, disbound £ 12.-
399 Vietor, Richard: Contrived Competition. Regulation and Deregulation in America. Harvard UP 1994. 434p 24cm cloth, dj, tables, index, notes, as new (£ 28.-) £ 12.-
400 Young, Peter: Power of Speech. A History of Standard Telephones and Cables, 1883 - 1983. Allen & Unwin 1983. x 220p 24cm cloth, dj, index, plates, VG £ 14.-
401 Andrews, Frank: The Edison Phonograph. The British Connection. Phonograph Soc 1986. xx 140p 22cm pb, many pl, appendix, index, sl rubbed £ 8.-
electricity & electronics:
402 [Electricity] Disbound section of an unidentified work on Natural Philosophy, approximate date 1835, pp 88 - 171 re electricity (= ¶ 576 - 693), plus 30p section (incompl) re magnetism, illus, pencil notes £ 8.-
403 Appleton, E V: Thermionic Vacuum Tubes and their Applications. Methuen 1932. vii 118p cloth, dj, index, illus, nice & fresh £ 6.
404 Cook, Gordon: Electrons Go to Work. SBC ?1969. 192p hb, dj, VG £ 6.-
405 Copper Development Assoc. Symposium on the Effect of Research and Design on the Use of Copper in the Electrical Industry. CDA 1962. 154p many plates, card cover worn £ 6.-
406 Malik, Rex: And Tomorrow the World. Inside IBM. Millington 1975. 496p hb, dj, index, appendix, VG+ £ 15.-
407 Music and Electronics. Science Service/Science Program. Doubleday 1967. 64p staples, many illus, glossary, colour plates, HiFi Education £ 4.-
408 Pierce, John: Electronics, Waves and Messages. The Art and Science of Modern Electronics. Garden City: Hanover House 1956. 318p 22cm cloth, dj (tear), index, fresh copy £ 12.-
409 Schnetzler, Eberhard: Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch. Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente. Mit 250 Abb. Stuttgart: Union 1909. 324p illus cloth,VG+ £ 18.-
gender:
410 Fritsche, Joann: Towards Excellence and Equity. The Scholarship of Women as a Catalyst for a Change in the University. Maine Univ 1984. xxxv 335p card cover, VG £ 6.-
411 Gender in Transition. A New Frontier. Ed. Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg. Plenum 1989. xv 310p hb, dj, index, 23 essays on the consequences of human reproduction technology £ 8.-
412 Murphy, Timothy: Gay Science. The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research. Columbia UP 1998. 268p half cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 14.-
413 Pujol, Michele: Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Early Economic Thought. Aldershot: Elgar 1992. 228p 24cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG £ 14.-
414 Women of Science. Righting the Record. Ed. G Kass-Simon. Indiana UP 1993. xvi 396p pb, index, illus, VG £ 14.-
415 Lewin, Ellen: (Ed.) Women, Health & Healing. New Perspective. Tavistock 1985. 317p, pb, biblio £ 8.-
416 Science for Girls. Ed. Allison Kelly. Open UP 1987. ix 141p card cover, index, bibliogr, collection of essays £ 8.-
iron & coal:
417 Dennis, Norman, et al: Coal is Our Life. An Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community. 2nd ed. Travistock 1969. 254p 22cm hb, used, sl worn, but clean £ 6.-
418 Copper Through the Ages. Ed. Copper Development Agency 1954. 65p 30plates, cloth, VG £ 8.-
419 Mee, Graham: Aristocratic Enterprise. The Fitzwilliam Industrial Undertakings, 1795 - 1857. Blackie 1975. xvii 222p hb, dj, index, plates, VG+: Wentworth Estates as microcosm of ind rev £ 14.-
420 Raistrick, Arthur: Dynasty of Iron Founders. The Darbys and Coalbrookdale. Longmans 1953. xvi 308p cloth, dj, many illus, dj, index, appendices, VG+ £ 16.-
421 Schubert, H R: History of the British Iron and Steel Industry from 450 BC to 1775. Routl 1957. xxi 445p 24cm buckram fresh, dj (worn), index, pl, bibliogr, appendix, VG, few pencil marks £ 24.-
422 Steenbuck, Kurt: Silber und Kupfer aus Ilmenau. Ein Bergwerk unter Goethes Leitung. Weimar: Böhlau 1995. 358p cloth, dj, index, glossar, bibliogr, 50 plates, map in pocket. Gesamtbild des Bergbaus zur Goethezeit, archival sources, new £ 15.-
423 Wallace, W: Analyses of Ironstones, Coals, Limestones, Fire Clays, Pig Irons and Furnace Slags, Illustrative of Scottish Iron Manufacture. Glasgow, priv pub 1877. 15p 21cm tables £ 12.-
424 Wilsdorf, Helmut: Montanwesen: Eine Kulturgeschichte. Edition Leipzig 1987. 409p 28cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, many illus & plates, also in colour, a very comprehensive survey £ 24.-
mathematics:
425 Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice. Ed. A Hopwood, P Miller. CUP 1994. xi 324p card cover, index, plates, VG+ £ 15.-
426 Bell, Eric Temple: Mathematics. Queen and Servant of Sciences. Bell 1952. xx 437p 20cm cloth (worn), indices, ex lib, a introductory history of mathematics £ 8.-
427 The Boole - De Morgan Correspondence, 1842 - 1864. Ed. G C Smith. Oxford: Clarendon 1982. 156p 23cm hb, index, bibliogr, as new £ 16.-
428 Condio, Luigi: Il Cav. Abate Francesco Faá di Bruno, Fondatore del Conservatorio ... in Torino. Torino: Conservatorio, 1932. vii 396p 24cm pb, plates, a bit worn, incl a bibliography of his mathematical writings £ 6.-
429 Coolidge, Julian: A History of Conic Sections and Quadric Surfaces. NY: Dover 1968 (1945). ix 214p 20cm card cover, index VG £ 6.-
430 Gaskin, Thomas: The Geometrical Construction of a Conic Section. Cambridge: Deighton 1852. viii 84p folding plate, disbound £ 12.-
431 Glöckl, Johann: Wahrheit und Beweisbarkeit. Untersuchung über das Verhältnis von Denken und Anschauung in der Mathematik. Bonn: Bouvier 1976. 93p card cover, as new £ 10.-
432 Hadamard, Jacques: An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field. New York: Dover 1990 (1949). xii 143p 20cm, pb, as new £ 5.-
433 Haddon's Rudimentary Arithmetic for the Use of Schools and Self-Instruction. Rev Ed Abraham Arman. Virtue Brothers 1862. 152p 18cm orig patterned boards, disbound £ 8.-
434 MacFarlane, Alexander: Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Cent. NY: Wiley 1916. (Mathem Monogr 17) 148p 24cm cloth, frontisp, index, VG ex lib copy £ 18.-
435 Napier, John: Rabdology, or, Calculation with Rods (1617). transl W F Richardson. MIT 1990. xxxvi 135p cloth, illus, appendix, notes, introd R Rider, as new £ 16.-
436 Rothstein, Edward: Emblems of Mind. The Inner Life of Music and Mathemathics. Random 1995. xx 263p 24cm half cloth, dj, as new £ 10.-
437 Simson, Robert: The Elements of Euclid, viz. The First Six Books, together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. Also The Book of Euclid's Data. Also annexed, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Edinburgh: Nourse, 1772. [viii] 512p, 22cm plain full calf, top board missing, scribbles and browning on titlepage, 3 folding plates creased and marginally dusty-brown, many illus in text, some scribbles, Very Good 4th edition. "Simson's ed has formed the basis of most modern textbooks.." (DNB) repair can be arranged £ 50.-
438 Smith, David Eugene: History of Mathematics. Vol 2: Special Topics of Elementary Mathematics. Boston: Ginn 1925. xii 725p 21cm cloth, many illus, index, arranged by topics, not chronologically as in the missing vol 1, library bookplate, VG £ 18.-
439 Yeldham, Florence: The Story of Reckoning in the Middle Ages. Harrap 1926. 96p cloth, illus, frontisp, introd C Singer, VG £ 10.-
medical history:
440 The Old English Herbarium and, Medicina Quadrupedis. Ed. Hubert Jan de Vriend. OUP/Early English Text Society 1984. xc 433p cloth, appendix, glossary, notes, long introd, VG+ £ 16.-
441 Berger, John; Mohr, Jean: A Fortunate Man. The Story of a Country Doctor. Penguin/RU 1968. 158p 21cm, hb, dj, as new. Photographical & discursive, wonderful essay on medical work £ 10.-
442 Bial, Manfred: Gastroptose (nd, 3p); Über den Tiefstand des Magens bei Männern, 1896, 17p; Über die Beziehung der Gastroptose zu nervösen Magenleiden, 1897, 10p, 3 offprints, recommends psychotherapy (early!) instead of Bauchbinden, destruction of a trad therapy £ 12.-
443 Boll, Franz: Sull'Anatomia e Fisiologia della retina. Offprint (proof copy, printed on rectos only) 1877. 25p 28cm, but without plate, with: Studi Sulle Immagini Microscopiche della Fibra Nervosa Midollare. Offprint 1877. 20p 3 tables, 27cm £ 12.-
444 Bright, Pamela: Dr Richard Bright, 1789 - 1858. Bodley 1983. 313p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, pl, VG+ £ 14.-
445 Brock, Dan: Life and Death. Philos Essays in Biomedical Ethics. CUP 1993. xi 435p card, index, VG+ £ 10.-
446 Brodie, Janet: Contraception and Abortion in 19th Century America. Cornell UP 1994. xviii 373p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, new £ 14.-
447 Brody, Howard: Stories of Sickness. Yale UP 1987. xiii 210p 21cm, cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+, the narrative art that lies at the heart of medicine £ 10.-
448 Cambridge and its Contribution to Medicine. Ed. Arthur Rook. Wellcome 1971. xiii 298p 23cm cloth, dj, index, VG+, from Caius and Glisson to Biochemistry and Vitamins £ 12.-
449 A collection of 15 offprints on Cardiology, 1864 - 1900 by Pettigrew (w/ plates) Bosse, W Rutherford, Nolf, Baumgarten, Cyon (Herzgifte, w/ graphs) Lamorkina, Wybauw, etc. Some inscribed, the lot (details available) £ 60.-
450 Chiarugi, Vincenzio: Saggio Theorico Pratico sulle Malattie cutanee sordide Osservate nel Regio Spedale di Bonifazio di Firenze. Firenze: Allegrini 1799. repr Firenze: Ed Riv Scient, 1989. xiii, 199p, Boxed with: Lorenzi Marri Malacrida, Emiliano Panconesi: Vincenzio Chiarugi, His Times and his Book on Sordid Cutaneaous Diseases, 62p, illus, VG £ 15.-
451 Clark-Kennedy, A E: Art of Medicine in Relation to the Progress of Thought. CUP 1945. 38p 18cm wrappers, VG £ 5.-
452 Clementi, Gesualdo (Prof Univ. Catania): La Scoverta delle Fibre dello Sharpey rivendicata all'Italia. Offprint 1876. 16p 28cm plates £ 8.-
453 [Cold, The] Dessar, Leonard A.: Home Treatment for Catarrhs and Colds. A handy guide for the prevention, care and treatment of cold in the head, sore throat.. ear affections... adapted for use in the Household, and for Vocalists, Clergymen, Lawyers, Actors, Lecturers etc. Bailliere Tindall & Co 1894. vi 118p 19cm hb sl worn, 45 illus, a fine source for the social history of the Influenza or La Grippe, with practical hints £ 12.-
454 Delgado Garcia, Gregorio: Historia de la Enseñanza superior de la Medicina en Cuba, 1726 - 1900. Havana: Ecimed 1990. 316p 24cm, pb, illus, VG £ 10.-
455 Duncan, J Matthews: The Father of Medicine: The Opening Address of the 139. Section of the Royal Medical Society. Offprint Edinburgh 1876. 27p, on Hippocrates. £ 8.-
456 Dutton, Diana: Worse than the Disease. Pitfalls of Medical Progress. CUP 1988. xvi 528p 24cm cloth, dj, index, many notes (120p), stamped, as new £ 10.-
457 History of the Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1730. 32p 18cm card cover, folding plate, undated reprint (1970?) contains hospital rules, list of managers and subscribers, tables of patients. VG+ £ 10.-
458 Exposito, César Rodríguez: Indice De Medicos, Dentistas, Farmaceuticos y Estudiantes en la Guerra de los diez Años. Habana 1968. 659p 24cm pb, many portraits, index, ex lib, a prosopographical masterwork in an unpretending cover £ 16.-
459 In Memoriam Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor 1878 - 1960. 64p cloth, pl, bibliogr, VG+, £ 4.-
460 Flückiger, F A: Dr Johan Eliza de Vrij (Gallerie hervorragender Therapeutiker und Pharmakognosten) ?1900. 18p frontisp, 25cm author inscription £ 6.-
461 Galen: Scripta Minora, vol 2: Ed. I Marquardt, Iwan Müller et al. Leipzig: Teubner 1891. xcii 124p cloth, Greek text, VG £ 6.-
462 Gelfand, Michael: Tropical Victory. An Account of the Influence of Medicine on the History of Southern Rhodesia, 1890 - 1923. Cape Town: Juta 1953. xii 256p 22cm cloth, plates, index, bibliogr, library bookplate, VG £ 14.-
463 Gilman, Sander: Disease and Representation. Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS. Cornell UP 1988. xiv 320p cloth, index, many illus, as new. Comprehensive history of representations and imagination ot diseases £ 14.-
464 [Glaxco] Jephcott, Harry: The First Fifty Years. Account of the Early Life of Joseph Edward Nathan and the First 50 Years of his Merchandise Business that eventually became the Glaxco Group. Priv Pub 1969. 118p 22cm imit leather, dj, many plates, as new £ 15.-
465 Good, Byron: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. An Anthropological Perspective. CUP 1994. xi 242p card cover, indices, bibliogr, VG+. How medicine constructs its objects £ 12.-
466 Hints on the Preservation of Health in Tropical Africa. Crown Agents for the Colonies 1948. 47p cloth (insecticidal binding sl soiled), illus, VG £ 10.-
467 Home, Sir Everard: 3 offprints on Animal Heat, 1825/26, one signed, together 32p, plates £ 12.-
468 Houghton, Edward: A Handbook of Medicine Explaining Symptoms and Treatment of Diseases for the Use of Outstation Officers and others in Sarawak. Singapore, for the Author at the Mission Press G Danker, 1870. 42p 18cm, traces of original label, cover restored, internally clean, not in NUC £ 46.-
469 Illich, Ivan: Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. Boyars 1976. viii 294p 24cm, hb, indices, the definitive version of "Medical Nemesis", VG+ £ 18.-
470 Izquierdo, Jose Joaquin: Bernard, Creador de la Medicina Cientifica, Estudio Critico de su labor cientifica, seguido de una version castellana de su Introduccion al Estudio de la Medicina Esperimental. Mexico: Univ Pr, 1942. xxiv 328p 25cm, pb, plates, index, VG £ 6.-
471 Jones, Kathleen: Mental Health and Social Policy, 1845 - 1959. Routledge 1960. vii 237p 22cm cloth (worn), index, ex lib £ 6.-
472 King, Lester: The Road to Medical Enlightenment, 1650 - 1695. Macdonald 1970. x 209p cloth, dj, index, VG+: Riverius, van Helmont, Boyle, Sylvius, Sydenham, F Hoffmann £ 14.-
473 Kneipp, Sebastian: My Water-Cure, Tested Through more than 30 Years, and described for the Healing of Diseases and the Preservation of Health, transl A de F, pref & appendix E Gerard. Blackwood 1893. xx 282p index, pub cat, cloth discoloured ("water cure"), VG £ 24.-
474 Kolbe, Henry: Hospital Survey of the Republic of Guatemala 1948. 179p 19p 25cm cloth (sl worn), mimeogr, maps, folding tables. Appendix: Report of the New York based Hospital Consultants, who strongly recommend the "Guatemala Plan" £ 15.-
475 Langdon-Brown, Walter: Some Chapters in Cambridge Medical History. CUP 1946. viii 117p cloth, index, VG: Caius, Gilbert, Glisson, Haviland etc £ 12.-
476 Lersch, B M: Geschichte der Balneologie und Pegologie, oder des Gebrauches des Wassers zu religiösen, diätischen und medizinischen Zwecken. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Kultus und der Medizin. (Würzburg 1863) reprint Leipzig 1987. 242p hb, label, illus, index, as new £ 20.-
477 McDonnell, Robert: What has Experimental Physiology done for the Advancement of the Practice of Surgery? An Address, Surgical Soc of Ireland. Dublin: Fannin 1877. 29p 21cm author inscription sl cropped, VG+ offprint in new wrapper £ 12.-
478 Manniche, Lise: An Ancient Egyptian Herbal. British Museum 1993. 176p 24cm card cover, illus, index, glossary, VG+ £ 12.-
479 Manson-Bahr, Philip: Patrick Manson. The Father of Tropical Medicine. Nelson 1962. viii 192p hb, index, plates, adhesive film, ex lib VG £ 10.-
480 Massini Ezcurra, Jose: Los Argerich. Dos Vidas consagradas a la Patria y a la Ciencia Medica: Cosme Mariano Argerich (1758 - 1820) & Francisco Cosme Argerich (1785 - 1846). Buenos Aires: Amigos del Livro, 1955. 297p 25cm, pb (dusty), plates, appendix w/ sources, ex lib, inscribed by author £ 8.-
481 Merrington, W R: University College Hospital and its Medical School. A History. Heinemann 1976. xvii 311p 24cm cloth, dj, index, appendices, plates, VG+ £ 18.-
482 Morgan, John: Medical Education at the Universities. Manchester: Cornish 1875. 30p, paper, table of geographical distribution of doctors £ 12.-
483 History of Nephrology. Ed. Garabed Eknoyan et al. Basel: Krager 1994. vi 241p 28cm hb (cover sl bent), index, many illus, a comprehensive collection of essays in the format of a medical journal (= double issue of American Journal Nephrology) VG £ 18.-
484 Osler, William: 4 medical offprints (1899, 1900) together 37p £ 20.-
485 The Roots of Molecular Medicine. A Tribute to Linus Pauling. Ed. R Huemer. NY: Freeman 1986. xiv 290p 24cm hb, index, plates, "Orthomolecular Medical Society", bibliogr, tables, VG £ 12.-
486 Pavy, F W: The Croonian Lectures on Certain Points Connected with Diabetes. London: Churchill 1878. vii 126p 23cm blindst cloth (one corner soiled), index, tables, still a fresh copy £ 15.-
487 Podolsky, Edward: Doctors, Drugs and Steel. The Story of Medicine's Battle against Death. Medical Pub 1947. 385p 22cm cloth, dj, index, VG £ 10.-
488 Porter, William: The Teaching of Physiology. 16p., sketches a new physiology course, author affiliated with Harvard University £ 8.-
489 Ransome, Arthur: The Present Position of State Medicine in England. An Address. Smith Elder 1877. 33p 21cm, title marginally dusty, tables, VG+ in new wrapper £ 12.-
490 Reid, Edith: The Life and Convictions of William Sydney Thayer, Physician. New York: OUP 1936. xii 243p 22cm cloth, appendix, index, plates £ 8.-
491 Reiser, Stanley: Medicine and the Reign of Technology. CUP 1978. xi 317p card cover, index, bibliogr (25p), notes, illus, VG+, as new £ 14.-
492 Ribero, Leonidio: Medicina no Brasil. Rio: Impr Nacional 1940. vi 409p 26cm cloth, ex lib, VG £ 14.-
493 Roberts, Nesta: Cheadle Royal Hospital. A Bicentenary History. Altringham: Sherratt 1967. 189p 22cm cloth, dj, plates, index, VG+ ex lib: early mental hospital £ 14.-
494 Robertson, John Kellock: Radiology Physics. Introductory Course for Medical or Premedical Students and for all Radiologists. Chapman 1941. xv 270p cloth, index, appendix, VG £ 12.-
495 Smith, Jane: Patenting the Sun. Polio and the Salk Vaccine. NY: Anchor 1991. 413p 21cm pb, plates, index, notes, VG+ £ 10.-
496 Sokoloff, Boris: Penicillin. A Dramatic Story. Allen & Unwin 1946. viii 167[ cloth, dj, index, bibliography: The first book about "sulfa drugs" £ 10.-
497 [W Tabor] A Century of Progress. Tabor Trego, 1831 - 1931. (London: Red Lion 1931). hb, sl dusty 14p text, 20plates: varnishes, soap, drugs and other pharmaceutics. Early labels etc £ 12.-
498 Taylor, P A: Current Fallacies about Vaccination. A Letter to Dr W B Carpenter. Allen 1881. 2nd edition. 37p 21cm disbound VG £ 10.-
499 [Tuberculosis] Ott, Katherine: Fevered Lives. Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. Harvard UP 1996. vii 242p 24cm half cloth, dj, index, plates, as new £ 12.-
500 [Tuberculosis] Baeumler: Die Behandlung der Tuberkulose im 19. Jahrhundert. Offprint 1900, Prof from Freiburg £ 10.-
501 [Tuberculosis] Ransome, Arthur: The Prospect of Abolishing Tuberculosis. Offprint 1899. 16p folding tables, author inscription, fresh £ 10.-
502 [Tuberculosis] Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Effect of Food Derived from Tuberculous Animals. Report. HMSO 1895. 24p 28cm witnesses, additional report £ 8.-
503 [X Ray] United States Army X-Ray Manual. Lewis 1920. 506p 219plates, 20cm cloth, index, VG £ 16.-
504 Young, James Harvey: The Medical Messiahs. A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Cent America. Princeton UP 1992 (1967). xiii 498p card cover, index, plates, new afterword £ 12.-
505 Ziegler, Philip: The Black Death. Pelican 1976. 332p pb, index, VG £ 6.-
brain science
506 Blakemore, Colin: Mechanics of the Mind (BBC Reith Lectures 1976) CUP 1977. 208p card cover, index, plates throughout, some in colour. A comprehensive review of brain sciences, with much historical background £ 14.-
507 Clark, Edwin; Jacyna, L: Nineteenth Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts. California UP 1987. 593p 23cm card cover index, bibliogr (100p), notes, as new £ 12.-
508 Cooter, Roger: Phrenology in the British Isles. An Annotated Historical Bio-bibliography and index. Scarecrow 1990. hb, as new, complete prospectus of the phrenological academy £ 18.-
509 Feldberg, W S: Fifty Years on: Looking back on some Developments on Neurohumoral Physiology. Liverpool UP 1982. xiii 106p 22cm cloth, indexes, bibliogr, figures, author inscription, Histamine in the 30ies, The Surface of the Brain, as new £ 12.-
510 Mosso, Angelo: Sulla Circolazione del Sangue nel Cervello dell'Uomo. Ricerche Sfigmografiche. Offprint 1880. 127p 28cm, many curves, portraits (2) of the patients (poveracci) £ 10.-
nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, military:
511 Atomic Energy. A General Account of the Development and Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under Auspices of the US. HMSO 1945. iv 144p paper cover, stapled, VG £ 12.-
512 Atomic Energy Year Book. Ed. J Tutin. Temple 1949. 235p xx cloth, plates, bibliogr, adverts, VG+ £ 12.-
513 Bertin, Leonard: Atom Harvest. SBC ?1970. 253p hb, dj, sl soiled £ 8.-
514 Chadwick, J: Radioactivity and Radioactive Substances, Pref. E Rutherford. Pitman 1932 (Pitman's Techical Primers) xii 116p cloth, index, illus, VG+, 3rd ed £ 8.-
515 [Union of Concerned Scientists, Daniel F Ford, director] The Nuclear Fuel Cycle. A Survey of the Public Health, Environmental and National Security Effects of Nuclear Power. Rev. ed. MIT Press 1975. 291p 23cm card cover, index, tables, VG+ £ 12.-
516 Elworthy, Scilla (Oxford Research Group): In the Dark. Parliament, the Public, and Nato's new Nuclear Weapons. Oxford: ORG 1989. 80p 22cm card cover, VG £ 3.-
517 Gamboa Loyarte, JosÈ Miguel: Las Investigaciones Nucleares y sus Repercusiones. Universidad de la Laguna, Leccion Inaugural 1952/53. 28p 23cm wrapper, VG+ £ 8.-
518 Gamow, George: Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life. Fifty Years of Radioactivity. CUP 1947. x 161p 20cm cloth, dj, tables, plates, illus, VG+ £ 12.-
519 La Hague Center. Irradiated Fuel Reprocessing. La Hague 1970. 62p 24cm, pb, plates, VG £ 4.-
520 The Hazards to Man of Nuclear and Allied Radiations. HMSO 1956. 128p 24cm cloth, VG £ 6.-
521 History of Accelerator Radiation Protection. Personal & Professional Memoirs. Ed. H W Patterson, R H Thomas. Ashford: Nuc Tech 1994. xiii 444p hb, dj, index, illus, as new, but sl bent £ 12.-
522 Jay, Kenneth: Calder Hall. The Story of Britains first Atomic Power Station. Methuen 1956. vii 88p 18cm hb, dj, plates, illus, VG £ 8.-
523 Laurence, William: Men and Atoms. The Discovery, the Uses and the Future of Atomic Energy. SBC 1961. xiii 320p 21cm hb, dj, VG £ 10.-
524 Polmar, Norman: Strategic Weapons, An Introduction. Revised Ed. NY: Russak, 1982. viii 126p 22cm card cover, many plates, appendix, VG+ £ 10.-
525 [Pugwash] Proceedings of the 33rd Pugwash Conference, Venice 1983. Avoiding Nuclear and other Wars and Reversing the Arms Race. No imprint. vii 285p 24cm card cover, VG+ £ 6.-
526 Seaborg, Glenn: The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon. NY: St Martins 1993. xv 268p 22cm hb, dj, index, illus, new. Nobel laureate author was chaiman of the commission £ 10.-
527 Steinert, Harald: The Atom Rush. Man's Quest for Radio-Active Materials. SBC 1958. 183p 22cm hb, dj, index, transl from German, VG £ 10.-
528 Wagner, Friedrich: Die Wissenschaft und die gefährdete Welt. Eine Wissenschaftssoziologie der Atomphysik. 2nd rev ed. München: Beck, 1969. viii 582p 24p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr (850 titles), notes, important study: how nuclear physics changes the nature of scientific inquiry £ 14.-
529 Adams, A R: Good Company. The Story of the Guided Weapons Division of British Aircraft Corporation. Stevenage: BAC GWD 1976. xvii 220p hb, dj, index, plates: Military industrial complex in action; exporting is fun £ 12.-
530 Clarke, Robin: The Science of War and Peace. Cape 1971. 349p hb, index, bibliogr, marked £ 8.-
531 IG Farben, Auschwitz, Mass Murder. On the Guilt of IG Farben. From the Documents of the Auschwitz Trial. Pref. Bruno Baum. 64p card cover, stapled, plates, VG £ 6.-
532 Low, A M: Benefits of War. Gifford 1943. xviii 189p 19cm cloth, index, VG: Chemical Warfare, Lessons from the Sea, The Air, Mass Production, Medicine, Political Gains, etc £ 12.-
533 Manchester, William: The Arms of Krupp, 1587 - 1968. Joseph 1969. 1053p hb, index, bibliogr, notes, chronology, many plates, most thorough & comprehensive study, unused as new £ 20.-
534 Thierry, Henry: L'Assainissement des Champs de Bataille. Offprint 1915. 15p illus, fragile but VG. War from the point of view of the soil £ 24.-
odd science & irregular medicine:
535 Ash, Michael: Health, Radiation & Healing. Darton 1962. 162p 22cm cloth, plates, illus, index, VG+. Medical hereticism, old "new age" nuclear cancer medicine with data about smoking £ 12.-
536 Berlitz, C: The Philadelphia Experiment. Project Invisibility. BCA 1979. 188p hb, dj, pl, bibliogr, VG £ 10.-
537 Bishop, Gurney: [Ralston] Davidson of Manitoba. Isleworth: Bishop 1974. 188p 22cm cloth, dj, plates, index, appendices, VG+. A 1930ies non-orthodox cure for cancer (tissue injections, diet) and the oppositions it encounters £ 14.-
538 Bromberger, Brian; et al: Deep Sleep. Harry Bailey and the Scandal of Chelmsford. Sidney: Simon 1991. x 182p 22cm card cover, index, plates, VG. Dangerous deep sleep quack in Sidney £ 8.-
539 Dunne, J W: The New Immortality. Faber 1938. 157p 19cm cloth (back soiled), dj, VG, time backwards, another kind of physics, note on telepathy £ 12.-
540 Dunne, J W: Experiment with Time. 2nd Ed. Black 1929. viii 213p 22cm cloth (sl rubbed) still VG £ 12.-
541 Everybodys' Dream-book and Fortune-Teller. London: Printed for the Book-Sellers, ?1890. 80p 15cm; bound with The Art of Fortune Telling. By an Old Hand. 80p, 1 illus, illus cloth £ 24.-
542 Harding, Glen: The Theory of Accumulations. A Proposal for a Unified Explanation of Universe, Life, Environment and Behavior. The Derivation of a Universal Index. Priv Pub 1944. 52p 23cm cloth, author inscr, VG £ 8.-
543 Ruesch, Hans: Naked Empress, or: The Great Medical Fraud. Zurich: Civis 1982. 202p 21cm hb, dj, plates (anti-vivisectionist), against animal based medical research, vegetarian extremism £ 12.-
544 Sheldrake, Rupert: The Presence of the Past. Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature. Collins 1988. xx 391p 24cm hb, dj, index, glossary, as new £ 12.-
545 Velikovsky, Immanuel: Oedipus and Akhnaton. Myth and History. Sidgwick & Jackson 1960. 280p cloth, dj, plates, VG 1st ed £ 14.-
546 Velikovsky, Immanuel: Worlds in Collision. Gollancz 1950. 384p 22cm, cloth sl rubbed, ow VG "If Darwin and Newton are sacrosanct, this book is a heresy." 1950ies Space Wars £ 15.-
physics:
547 A Physics Anthology. Ed. Norman Clarke. Chapman & Hall 1960. viii 321p 23cm cloth, dj, VG+: Essays by Crombie, Mendelssohn, Mott etc on the history of, teaching of, Physics in relation to Religion, Aesthetics, Practical Jokes, Thermodynamics, Technology, Industry and Ethics £ 14.-
548 Bunge, Mario; Shea, Wiliam (Eds): Rutherford and Physics at the Turn of the Century. Dawson 1979. vii 184p 23cm cloth, dj, fresh copy, with essays by Heilbron et al £ 20.-
549 Cambridge Physics in the Thirties. Ed. John Hendry. Bristol: Hilger 1984. 209p 24cm hb, dj, many plates, index, bibliogr, new, the golden age of Cambridge physics £ 16.-
550 Berry, A J: Henry Cavendish: His Life and Scientific Work. Hutchinson 1960. 208p 23cm cloth, index, illus, VG former library copy £ 16.-
551 Clavelin, Maurice: La Philosophie naturelle de Galilée. Essays sur les origines et la forma tion de la mécanique classique. Albin Michel 1996. (1968) xii 508p card cover, VG+ £ 10.-
552 Cushing, James: Philosophical Concepts in Physics. The Historical Relation between Philosophy and Scientific Theories. CUP 1998. xix 423p card 25cm index, bibliogr, illus, new: the essential & ineliminable role philos considerations have played in the actual practice of science £ 15.-
553 Einstein, Albert; Infeld, Leopold: L'Evoluzione della Fisica. Dai concetti iniziali alla relativita e ai quanti. Torino 1990. trad A Graziadei. 310p 19cm pb VG £ 8.-
554 Glick, Thomas: Einstein in Spain. Relativity & the Recovery of Science. Princeton UP 1988. xiii 392p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, VG+. Einstein (Hero) united left & right, remarkable £ 12.-
555 Friedman, Alan; Donley, Carol: Einstein as Myth and Muse. CUP 1989. xiv 224p 23cm index, many illus, the literary transformations of a physcist. paperback 8.-, hardback £ 10.-
556 Herneck, F: Albert Einstein. Leipzig: Teubner 1977. 124p card cover, VG+ £ 6.-
557 Nordmann, Charles: Einstein and the Universe. A Popular Exposition of the Famous Theory. Pref Viscount Haldane. Fisher Unwin 1922. 185p 22cm cloth, VG £ 10.-
558 Gregory, Richard; Hadley, H: A Class Book of Physics. Macmillan 1926 (1909) xii 253p 20cm cloth, many illus, index, still VG £ 10,-
559 Hawking, Stephen: A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes. NY: Bantam 1988. x 198p 24cm clothb boards, dj, VG. Hawking: "Supernova of World Physics" £ 10.-
560 Holton, Gerald: The Advancement of Science and its Burdens. The Jefferson Lecture and other Essays. CUP 1988. xi 351p card cover, index, VG+, focus on Einstein & 20C physics. £ 14.-
561 Jean, James: Through Space & Time. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1933. CUP 1934. xiv 224p 21cm, cloth, spine a bit dull, plates, index, pencil marks, still VG £ 8.-
562 Jean, James: The Growth of Physical Science. RU/Cambridge UP 1950. 364p 20cm cloth, plates, illus, index, sl worn £ 10.-
563 Kirschner, Stefan: Nicolaus Oresmes Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles. Kommentar mit Edition. Stuttgart: Steiner 1997. (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 39). 491p card cover, bibliogr, as new (DM 148.-) £ 22.-
564 Knott, C G: Electricity & Magnetism. An Elementary Course. Chamber 1893. 239p cloth, illus, worn £ 6.-
565 Leech, J W: Classical Mechanics. Chapman & Hall 1987. (1958) 153p pb, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 8.-
566 Millikan, R A, et al: New Elementary Physics. Ginn 1936. xiv 637p cloth, many illus, index, VG+ £ 12.-
567 Ne'eman, Yuval; Kirsh, Yoram: The Particle Hunters. CUP 1986. xii 272p 24cm card cover, indices, illus, ex lib VG+ £ 8.-
568 Newton, Roger: The Truth of Science. Physical Theories and Reality. Harvard UP 1997. viii 260p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, new: an answer to constructivism £ 13.-
569 Physics and Our View of The World. Ed. Jan Hilgevoord. CUP 1994. ix 304p 24cm hb, dj, index, as new. Essays by Fraasen, Feyerabend, Hesse et al, is a theory of everything possible £ 12.-
570 Schrödinger. Centenary Celebration of a Polymath. Ed. C W Kilmister. CUP 1991. 251p 24cm pb, index, VG £ 8.-
571 Erwin Schrödinger's World View. The Dynamics of Knowledge and Reality. Ed. Johann Goetschl. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992. 237p 24cm hb, indices, 40p bibliogr of S's writings £ 10.-
572 Stebbing, Susan: Philosophy and the Physicists. Pelican 1944 (1937). 219p pb VG £ 4.-
573 Stewart, Balfour: Physics (Science Primers) Macmillan 1876. 151p 15cm cloth (soiled), illus £ 6.-
574 Tolansky, S: Introduction to Atomic Physics. Longmans 1945 (1942) xi 343p cloth, dj (worn), pl, illus, index, Pref L Bragg, sl worn £ 10.-
575 Wilks, J: The Third Law of Thermodynamics. OUP 1961. 142p card cover 8.-
576 Ryder, Lewis: Quantum Field Theory. CUP 1985. xii 443p 24cm hb, dj, index, illus, VG+ ex lib £ 12.-
577 [Sweden] Center on the Periphery. Historical Aspects of 20th Century Swedish Physics. Ed. Svante Lindqvist. Science History 1993. lvi 516p 24cm cloth, dj, index, comprehensive bibliogr of studies of Swedish scientists, illus, as new £ 15.-
578 Zimmer, Ernst: The Revolution in Physics. Introd. Max Planck. transl. from the German. SBC 1941. 240p 19cm hb, sl soiled, illus, plates, index £ 7.-
space:
579 Braun, Wernher von; Bondi, H; et al: A Journey through Space and the Atom. A Course of Sel Lectures on Astronomy, Space Rocketry, and Physics. Ed. S T Butler. Sydney: Shakespeare 1962. 495p 22cm cloth, dj, plates throughout, VG+ £ 24.-
580 Bergaust, Erik; Beller, William: Satellite! SBC 1957. 239p hb, dj, Pref H Oberth, VG £ 6.-
581 Burgess, Eric: Satellites and Spaceflight. SBC 1957. 159p hb, dj, illus, VG £ 8.-
582 Jeans, James: The Mysterious Universe. CUP 1931. viii 1554p 19cm cloth, index, plates, the new world of modern physics £ 8.-
583 Last, C E: Man in the Universe. Laurie 1954. 166p 22cm hb, dj, illus, bibliogr, index, VG £ 8.-
584 Ley, Willy: The Conquest of Space. Illus C Bonest